Summer Squash: Cucurbita pepo 'Trombocino'

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This wonderful Italian heirloom summer squash is a vigorous climbing vine, producing many 12- to 15-inch, lime-green fruits with a curvaceous trombone shape and a delicate mild taste with a hint of nutty artichoke flavor. 'Trombocino' flesh is seedless and firm and does not get watery or mushy like regular zucchini. The rambling plants will soon cover a trellis, fence or stakes with graceful fruits that hang like jade ornaments cloaked in a lush canopy of big, heart-shaped leaves.