posted 6 years ago
They look like maxima squash to me. Cucurbita maxima is a squash species. In the Walmarts I've been in these appeared around Halloween. My parents bought a white maxima for my son somewhere for halloween. Having gotten used to better tasting maximas in recent years with orange flesh like Hidatsa and Loft house I rejected the seed after cutting it open and finding it pallid inside as well as out. That's not to say there aren't some interesting genetics there. Have a fruit stand turban squash in the pie pile (maxima). Planning to save the seeds just for the cool shape.
Western Montana gardener and botanist in zone 6a according to 2012 zone update.
Gardening on lakebed sediments with 7 inch silty clay loam topsoil, 7 inch clay accumulation layer underneath, have added sand in places.