Guatemalan Green Ayote

My vines climbed up a concrete chunk wall and through a chainlink fence and above the top. Leave them lots of room to spread. Compost them well. I planted five seeds in mid May and harvested eight large squashes just before a partial frost October 17 killed some of the leaves. We used to be zone 5A with frosts in late September. Guatemala has a longer growing season so the vines are still flowering and producing unripe fruits. One photo shows that the vines took over about four times the area they were planted in They climbed up a concrete chunk wall and through the neighbor's fence then above it, and through empty tomato cages and over buckets of compost. I kept moving the vines off the paths. They grow very fast and grab onto everything. The leaves are prickly. The fruits are delicious. They keep at least a year. The striped skins range from gold to green. The following description and the photo of cut-open squashes were copied from the Annapolis Seeds listing. They planted it June 1 and harvested it in October around the time of the first frost. C. moschata - Amazing green-fleshed fruit. One of our favourite squashes for flavour; sweet and fruity (reminiscent of honeydew) with firm, silky texture. Like butternut, but a bit different. Lots of diversity, definitely would be considered a landrace variety. Shapes range from slender long-necked fruit to round pumpkin shaped (however the majority are butternut shaped). Their flesh ranges from green to chocolate-orange. Cooking them brings out the darker green. Long prolific vines.