Yellow Zucchini ?

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Loon AuGres, MI(Zone 5b) May 03, 2008

I bought the wrong squash yesterday. To make matters worse, I bought a whole flat of it. :)

The tag had a picture of yellow squash and the label said summer squash so I just threw it on my cart. When I got home I decided to look up the variety which is Gold Rush and I find out it is not the same yellow squash I'm used to planting and eating. It is actually a yellow zucchini. It did say on the tag it got the ARS award.

Has anyone ever grown this before? Does it run or grow like a bush? Is it good to eat? How do you fix it? Will I need a semi truck to put the squash in when I harvest?

Thanks

Brenda

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Hemental Waynesboro, MS(Zone 8a) May 03, 2008

Gold Rush is a hybrid yelow squash with white flesh that is listed as a zucchini type
I grew it a number of years ago.
It was not as prolific as the black or dark green varieties.

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LTilton Glen Ellyn, IL(Zone 5b) May 03, 2008

I grew it last year. It was a bush variety. I liked it because it was easy to spot the fruits to pick them while they were young. In really hot weather, they turn more green than gold.

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Loon AuGres, MI(Zone 5b) May 04, 2008

Thanks for your replies. I hope it tastes good. Maybe it's a good thing to try new things. I may like the taste better than the yellow crook neck I'm used to fixing.


Brenda

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eweed Everson, WA(Zone 8a) May 04, 2008

I find gold rush to be a good tasting zuk and as noted above lower in production than the greens or blacks. But if you have a flat probably you could not begin to use what they will produce. I tried yellow crooked neck last year and I think I do like it better than zuks.Ernie

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Loon AuGres, MI(Zone 5b) May 04, 2008

Thanks Ernie for your critique. I did buy some green zucchinni also. I plan to plant seeds for my regular crook neck yellow squash. We'll just have lots of squash to eat and share with friends and the deer. :) None will go to waste. We have lots of room to plant all of them.

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