Silver Edged

Grown primarily for the tasty seeds, which are very large, white with a striking silver edge. They are roasted for pepitas or used in pipian sauce. In addition to the seeds, the flowers, growing tips of vines are also edible, and the young squash can be eaten when small and immature as summer squash, and the the mature fruit as winter squash. Harvest from the vine when the kin in hard and the stem is brown, then allow to after-ripen for 30 days in a cool location. Fruit are round, slightly flattened, white, with thinn green stripes.