Yields of 2-3 pound squash are good, but quite late. A favorite of many Pinetree workers, Delicata is a good choice for the home gardener. The vines are relatively compact. Fruits average about eight inches in length, are half as wide, so they are a good size for a meal. Color is sort of a creamy green with lengthwise darker green stripes.
Flesh is an attractive orange and flavor is very sweet.
As a bonus, Delicata is also a very good keeper for a small squash and the flavor even seems to improve as the winter passes. We have a particularly good strain of this variety. The sweet, dry, nutty flavor of this open-pollinated squash is superb. It also has a very interesting deeply-lobed and ribbed shape, reminiscent of its gourd ancestors. Though it's difficult to peel or cube, it's excellent baked or stuffed.