May 6, 2026

Squash and Pumpkins With Serious Table Presence

Squash and Pumpkins With Serious Table Presence

Winter squash and pumpkins are storage crops, but they can also be design objects: blue, white, red-orange, ribbed, flat, round, and deeply seasonal.

Red and Orange Squash

Uchiki Red Kuri Squash, and Autumn Gold F1 bring warm colour and sweet flesh.

Blue and White Pumpkins

Blue Pumpkin and White Flat Boer Ford Pumpkin give you unusual colour and serious autumn display value.

Big Storage Energy

Baby Blue Hubbard is the kind of squash that makes winter cooking feel abundant.

Casa Verde takeaways

  • Cure winter squash properly for storage.
  • Use squash variety as part of fall garden design.
  • Browse squash seeds.
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Founder and operator of Casa Verde Microfarm and Casa Verde Seeds in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Québec. Michael writes practical seed and growing guides for Canadian gardeners.