Description:

An eye-catching, heirloom variety with excellent cooking qualities; light pink to salmon colored skin with deep lobes with golden orange flesh; sweet and savory with a pleasant texture, the best choice for making Camarão na moranga

Edible Qualities

Moranga Squash is an annual vegetable plant that is typically grown for its edible qualities. It produces salmon round fruit with gold flesh which are typically harvested when mature. The fruits have a delicious taste.

The fruit are most often used in the following ways:

• Cooking
• Baking
• Freezing

Planting & Growing

Moranga Squash will grow to be about 20 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 8 feet. When planted in rows, individual plants should be spaced approximately 24 inches apart. This vegetable plant is an annual, which means that it will grow for one season in your garden and then die after producing a crop.

This plant is typically grown in a designated vegetable garden. It should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. This plant is a heavy feeder that requires frequent fertilizing throughout the growing season to perform at its best. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone over the growing season to conserve soil moisture. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America, and it is considered by many to be an heirloom variety.; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.