Golden Delicious Squash are tall and oval, with orange skin, and thick, finely-textured, yellowish-orange flesh that is not watery.
The squash can weigh 8 to 14 pounds (3 1/2 to 6 1/3 kg.)
Vine-type plant.
95 to 100 days from seed.
Cooking Tips
Good for baking, pie, soup, canning.
The seeds are good roasted.
Storage Hints
Stores well.
History Notes
Golden Delicious Squash was developed by Ray W. and Edward E. Gill of Gill Brothers Seed Company, Portland, Oregon, from a cross between Green Delicious Hubbard Squash and Boston Marrow.
Introduced 1926.