General information and discussion about cultivating melons, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins and gourds.
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March 11, 2011 | #1 |
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Coosa in containers question
I have five Coosa (aka Cousa, Lebanese squash) seedlings in a 15 gal container. It is in the greenhouse and growing rapidly, but hasn't started to vine just yet. I usually put five to even six cucumber plants in the same size pot and it works great, but does the coosa need a little more room?
I have a 5' high, 20" diameter cage in this container - will this work or am I going to end up with a mess later on if I don't remove a couple of those five plants while I still can? |
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There are both F1 and OP cousa types and cousas are my Most favorite summer squash, bar none. They have a nutty delicious taste that I don't find in other summer squash varieties. I could see your cukes vining over the tops of the pots but cousas are large bush varieties similar to the many zukes and yellow squash that one might grow. I prepare them just by slight steaming and then adding butter, salt and pepper and nothing more. To add anything else I think masks the taste of this squash. The variety I have seeds for right now is Magda F1 and it's great, but there are other ones I've grown in the past. Which variety do you have Suze?
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The Cousa seeds from Isreal are probably OP seeds but that's just fine as well. The only difference I've seen between the OP ones and the several hybrid ones is that the latter tend to give me higher yields when the summer weather is not optimal, but the taste of both the OP and the F1's I've found to be nearly identical.
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