Scallop squash "Gagat" (patisson)

Patisson "Gagat".
Early shrubby variety. Vegetation period is 55-70 days. Fruit peel is dark green, white flesh and taste is better than a courgette or squash.
Fruits 4-5 cm in diameter are suitable for preserving, larger ones are fried, steamed or stuffed. To have earlier crops, it is recommended to plant seedlings.
Harvested two or three times a week. Grow best in fertile soil, in sun, area sheltered from the wind.
The fruits are 4-5 cm in diameter, dark green on the outside and with juicy white flesh inside. The plant is bushy, vigorous.
The fruits are disc-shaped with slightly pronounced grooves, dark green in technical ripeness, black-green, almost black in biological ripeness.
The pulp is dense, crispy. Weight 250-350 g. Technological and culinary properties are excellent.
The value of the variety: a long period of return of the crop, the originality of colour.
The optimum soil temperature for seed germination is +25+30°C.
Sowing in closed ground: May.
Sowing in open ground: May - June.
Planting seedlings: June.
Harvest: July - August.
Landing pattern: 70x70-100 cm.

Fruticose squash, Scallop squash, Patisson. Bot.:Cucurbita pepo L. var. melopepo.