Even richer in flavor and more generous in yields than the old favorite!
Spineless, early maturing, and very heavy yielding.
Genus: Cucurbita
Variety: Contender Hybrid
Item Form: (P) Pkt of 20 seeds
Days To Maturity: 43
Fruit Color: Green
Seeds Per Pack: 20
Fruit Length: 8 in – 9 in
Additional Characteristics: Direct Sow, Easy Care Plants, Edible
Harvest Season: Early Fall, Early Summer, Late Summer, Mid Fall, Mid Summer
Light Requirements: Full Sun
Moisture Requirements: Moist, well-drained
Soil Tolerance: Normal, loamy, Sandy
Uses: Beds, Cuisine
43 days from sowing. If you loved Park’s Sable Beauty, as so many gardeners did, you will be thrilled with its replacement. Contender has all the rich flavor, big yields, and quick finishing ability of Sable Beauty, right down to the midnight-green skin flecked with gold!
Ready just 6 weeks from sowing, this zucchini extends your summer squash season deliciously. The zukes reach 8 to 9 inches long, firm and packed with tender white flesh. You will get a big, big harvest from this plant, which keeps going all summer and into fall in most climates. Get those recipes out and prepare to share the bounty with less fortunate neighbors and friends!
Contender is spineless and has an open habit that makes harvsting much easier. Everything about this zucchini is superb, deserving of a central place in your vegetable garden! Pkt is 20 seeds.
I opened the package after receive it, it seems that the seeds are great.