Nothing beats the taste of zucchini or squash picked fresh from the garden. Often the fruit of these heirloom varieties will have a firmer texture and a superior flavor to store brought zucchini or squash. Due to their mild, slightly bitter flavor they can be cooked with a wide range of different herbs, spices and condiments without competing with their flavor. They can be fried, grilled, barbecued, boiled, steamed or stewed. Keep cooking to a minimum, overcooking zucchini and squashes can have a flavourless, mushy unappealing result. Zucchini and squashes are dead easy to grow and a versatile favourite of many home gardeners. Our full range of delicious heirloom zucchini and squash seeds can be found below:
Heirloom Zucchini & Squash Seeds
Button Squash 'Bennings Green Tint'
Bennings Green Tint is a heirloom button squash variety that produces excellent yields of pale-green fruits. This variety has fruits which are tender and of good flavour. Pick button squash when young to encourage further production. 9-10 weeks to harvest. 15 seeds per packet.
Button Squash 'Early White Scalloped Bush'
This vibrant white button squash is a highly productive, early heirloom variety. Round, ribbed, saucer shaped fruits growing up to 13cm across. Harvest in 7-8 weeks from sowing. Each packet contains 15 seeds.
Spaghetti Squash
Spaghetti Squash, also called Vegetable Spaghetti, is grown for it's stringy, pasta-like flesh that can be used as a low carbohydrate alternative to spaghetti. Pick when mature, the skin will turn a deeper yellow colour. The seeds are also edible roasted like pepitas. 10 seeds per packet.
Squash 'Tromboncino'
Tromboncino is an Italian heirloom squash variety that can be grown as a Winter squash but is most often picked young as a Summer squash. Produces long, bent green-skinned fruits with a bulbous end. Grows as a vine. 15 seeds per packet.
Squash 'Yellow Crookneck'
Yellow crookneck is a heirloom Summer squash variety that produces long bumpy, yellow-skinned fruits with a thin, bent neck. Flesh is white and firm. Flavour is similar to zucchini but with additional buttery notes. Best picked small while the skin is at its most tender. 9-11 weeks to harvest. 15 seeds per packet.
Zucchini 'Black Beauty'
Zucchini 'Black Beauty' is a prolific, early-bearing, open-pollinated heirloom zucchini variety. It produces high-quality, uniform fruit with deep green skin and tender, white flesh. Excellent flavour. Harvest in 7-9 weeks from sowing. Each packet contains 15 seeds.
Zucchini 'Costa Romanesque'
Costa Romanesque is an Italian heirloom zucchini variety with ribbed, mottled skin. Flesh is tender even when picked over-sized with a subtle nutty flavour. Grows well in warmer climates. Each packet contains 15 seeds.
Zucchini 'Golden'
Zucchini 'Golden' produces smooth, yellow-skinned fruits with firm, white flesh. Flavour similar but more nutty than green-skinned varieties. Open, upright growth habit. 8-10 weeks to harvest. 15 seeds per packet.
Zucchini 'Lebanese'
Lebanese zucchini is a heirloom variety that produces short, pale green, tender fruit. Superb flavour that is sweeter than larger dark green varieties. High yields. 15 seeds per packet.
Zucchini 'Ronde de Nice'
Ronde de Nice is a prolific French heirloom ball zucchini that produces small, round, mottled, pale green fruits that are very tender and have an excellent flavour. 7-9 weeks to harvest. Each packet contains 15 heirloom seeds.