Everwilde Farms - 20 Blue Hubbard Winter Squash Seeds - Gold Vault Seed Packet

This popular Hubbard type, Blue Hubbard, produces football-shaped fruits that weigh up to 30 pounds. This variety has blue-gray skin and fine-textured orange flesh that matures in about 110 days. This variety is sweet-flavored and delicious in pies or steamed or baked. Great storing quality! The story is told that Elizabeth Hubbard, a washerwoman for the Gregory family in Marblehead, Massachusetts, gave her employer the seed for an heirloom squash. J. H. Gregory immediately named the squash "Hubbard," saying that Mrs. Hubbard was "a good, humble soul, and it pleases me to think that the name of such a one had become, without any intent of hers, famous." The Blue Hubbard type in particular was introduced in 1909 by the Gregory Seed Company.