This grew really well next to my potato patch and along the top of my boundary wall. It only grew a single fruit from its sole female fl...Read Moreower, though that weighed in at 29lbs so I'm happy with that.
Then it produced a flush of female flowers in early September. I've let 3 grow, and cut that first fruit off the vine to maximise the chance that these late arrivals will mature before the frosts arrive. Between them they're gaining 2 to 3 lbs a day so I might be lucky...
The plant has barely been touched by powdery mildew, despite other varieties nearby getting crippled by it, so it may be resistant.
We live on a very steep top ridge of a hot & dry rocky foothill in southern Colorado's Las Animas County at an elevation of over 7000 ft...Read More. We have extreme spring winds, not much rain, and very hot sun. Native plants are pinons and scrub oak. Our soil is alkaline with clay. We also haul all our water. We planted Galeux D Eysines Pumpkin in our vertical garden using landscape fabric to conserve water. The vines happily grew up their 6ft trellis and across. Each plant produced one very large & really cool squash. Each squash has no additional support except what the vine naturally provides. It's really something to see the huge squash up 5ft hanging on it's own.
To keep in theme with the previous reviewers: This is really cool looking squash, with all its warts and the orangey-pink color it gets....Read More Very good eating; prepared it by steaming it as the other reviewer noted.
Produced a larger-than-basketball-sized squash for me, as well as two very small ones, despite fairly neglectful care. The squashes reall...Read Morey are gorgeous, great texture on the outside and fantastically rich orange flesh inside, and the taste is full and good, not bland at all.
Planted next to a Cecile Brunner gone renegade, it climbed up into the rosebush and grew its fruits hanging down like some bizarre orchard species.
Keeps wonderfully because of the way it heals nicks and scratches by covering them over with warts!
Los Alamos, NM (Zone 5a) | December 2006 | positive
Galeux d'Eysiens thrives for me at 7,300 ft. It produces a fascinating warty squash of a beautiful creamy salmon color. It makes gr...Read Moreeat decoration in the fall and has rich, delicious, bright orange flesh inside. It is a rather large, pumpkin-like squash and keeps very well, with its thick skin, yet it can be cut open with a large kitchen knife.
The flavor is wonderful and the texture is very smooth, not the least bit stringy. Galeux is delicious just steamed and buttered, but one of my friends made a squash soup of it that she is still exclaiming about.
Like all the squash I know it is happiest in bright sun with rich soil and plenty of water, but it is very rewarding to grow, cook, and decorate with.
Can be eating when warts ( corking) begin, even if that is before first frost. For me, keeps about 2 months in cool, dry storage.
This grew really well next to my potato patch and along the top of my boundary wall. It only grew a single fruit from its sole female fl...Read More
We live on a very steep top ridge of a hot & dry rocky foothill in southern Colorado's Las Animas County at an elevation of over 7000 ft...Read More
It grew well this summer in Denver. So far it has resisted powdery mildew.
To keep in theme with the previous reviewers: This is really cool looking squash, with all its warts and the orangey-pink color it gets....Read More
Produced a larger-than-basketball-sized squash for me, as well as two very small ones, despite fairly neglectful care. The squashes reall...Read More
Galeux d'Eysiens thrives for me at 7,300 ft. It produces a fascinating warty squash of a beautiful creamy salmon color. It makes gr...Read More
This flattened, round 10-15 lb fruit has a salmon-peach colored skin that is covered with large warts!