Table Gold Winter Squash: Growth Habit & Growing Tips

Key facts

Growth habit

Bush

Listed for

United States

Overview

Table Gold is an open-pollinated acorn squash from Musser Seed Company (1979), bred from Table King crossed with Burpee Golden Zucchini. The bush plants stay compact and produce gold, acorn-shaped fruit of about 1.5 pounds with yellow flesh, ripening to a bright orange. It is unusually flexible: pick it immature and cook it like a summer squash, or let it mature for winter use. The strain has a known quirk of 10 to 20 percent malformed female flowers, so expect a few blossoms that never set. Adaptation is wide.

Table Gold traits

• Compact bush habit suited to small plots
• Gold, acorn-shaped fruit of about 1.5 pounds
• Yellow flesh; mature skin turns bright orange
• Usable as either summer or winter squash
• Open pollinated, from Table King x Burpee Golden Zucchini
• Some defective female flowers (10 to 20 percent)

Good for

• Baking
• Immature harvest as summer squash
• Small gardens

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Table Gold FAQ

Sowing, care and common problems

Sowing times, care and common problems are the same for every winter squash variety, so they are covered once in the growing guide.

• Winter Squash growing guide
• Training Pumpkin Vines: Laying Out Runners and Pinching Tips
• Growing Pumpkins Vertically: Trellis, Slings and Small-Garden Squash
• Hand Pollinating Pumpkins: Timing, Technique and Why Fruit Abort
• Pumpkin Growing Calendar: From Sowing to the Curing Shelf
• Pumpkin Pests and Diseases: Vine Borers, Squash Bugs and Mildew
• When to Harvest Pumpkins: Ripeness Signs, Curing and How Long They Store
• All 219 winter squash varieties

Source

Source: Cornell University (CALS Garden-Based Learning)

The text on this page is our own summary written from the published variety record, not a copy of it.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.