Vegetable Seeds

A member of the squash family with its roots in the Americas. Popularly known as Zucchini it is a rather easy to grow squash. The fruits are dark green in colour and will grow to a considerable size if left to grow.

A South African favourite with tasty cricket ball sized fruits in autumn. Easily grown like you would courgettes. A hardy perennial grown as an annual to a height of 60-80cm and needing 1m of space top spread. Exquisite yellow flesh.

This is a sweeter squash, used much like a pumpkin or sweet potato. It is great roasted either in its skins or pealed. Try it the South African way with a dash of sugar and cinnamon.

These little pumpkins fit in the palm of your hand and make very nice decorations, as well as being edible! When fully cured on the vine, Jack Be Little pumpkins will hold their decorative value for up to a year! Nice shape and colour! 95 days to maturity. Plant is attractive to butterflies and bees.

Flat white boer pumpkins are a rich white to cream colour with a yellow flesh. They grow up to 12kg's. They do very well in dry conditions.

100 Days. This is the original strain of the high quality Hubbard squash. Although smaller than the New England strain, it still produces the classic Hubbard shaped fruit and measures 12 in. long by 7 in. in diameter. The 7-10 lb. fruit will have a green rind and a sweet, fine textured orange flesh.

This very popular pumpkin has medium to large fruit weighing 3-5 Kg with smooth, dark grey coloured, very hard, and strongly ribbed skin with rich, deep orange, sweet flesh. It grows on strong productive vines. The fruit are excellent keepers and will last 6 months if picked and stored properly. Matures in about 100 days. Queensland Blue is one of the larger pumpkins, and an old favourite with green, turning grey creamed fruit and a deep orange flesh. It is a good long keeping variety.