Buffalo Creek Squash

Cucurbita maxima. aka Boston Marrow. A Slow Food Ark of Taste variety. A Haudenosaunee heirloom variety from the Buffalo Creek reservation of Erie County New York. Seeds for the squash made their way to Boston in the 1830s where the variety was renamed as Boston Marrow by Europeans for their seed trade. Fine, smooth orange flesh mashes well and is good in pies and breads. It also has enormous blossoms that work well for stuffing and eating. Plants are very, very large and require a lot of space. Fruits can be massive; I have grown them up to 30+ pounds without much special care at all. One 20+ pounder even grew out of my compost pile as a volunteer this year.