Zucchetta Rampicante Squash
Item Details
This marvelous Italian heirloom delivers both in the garden and on the plate! Highly productive plants bear plenty of long, slender, curved fruits that wrap around vines, trellises, and sometimes one another. Squash measures 2-3" in diameter, widening to 4-5" at the bulbous blossom end and weighing from 5-8 pounds at maturity. ‘Zucchetta Rampicante’ excels as a summer squash—it’s tender, mild, and sweet—but has also long been used in Italy as a winter squash in pies, ravioli, and gnocchi. Immature fruits are pale green with white streaks; mature squash are tan with white streaks.
Seed Savers Exchange received this variety in the early 2000s from Jaime Poris, an Exchange lister in Boulder Creek, California, who had purchased the variety in 1990 from R.H. Shumway.
- Organic
- Summer or winter squash
- Highly Productive
- +/- 200 seeds per ounce
- From the Collection, 2025
Growing Instructions
Instructions
Sow seeds outdoors in 12" diameter hills after danger of frost has passed. Hills should be spaced 6' apart in all directions. Can also be started indoors three (3) weeks before transplanting out.
Ratings & Reviews
1 review
A garden rock star.
by Tara
I grew these for the first time this year and will grow them every year from now on. Incredibly productive, I got 10 winter squash from each vine and about the same number of summer squash. I like the flavor and texture of the summer squash better than either zucchini or straightneck squash, and the winter squash is similar to butternut. I will grow them on a trellis in the future because the vines are very long, about 15 feet in two directions, and they grow straighter and are easier to store if trellised.