Barbara

Outstanding Qualities

• Unique baby vegetable product
• Very healthy, productive plants
• Outstanding quality and flavour

Barbara is an exciting tropical butternut variety. Plants are widely adapted and yield potential is high. The fruit set is excellent and covers a long bearing period. It has been observed that the plants’ strong vigour tends to make it less susceptible to diseases. Due to Barbara’s attractive rind colour and its ability to firm up at a very early stage, immature fruit can be used as a baby vegetable. The first fruits are harvestable as baby squashes at around 45 days after transplant. Barbara may be used for mature fruit production due to its exceptional quality and can be harvested around 85 – 95 days from transplant. Mature fruit weighs around 1 – 1.5 kg. The rind colour of the immature (baby) fruit is dark green with lighter green stripes and when mature have a medium- dark green colour with tan coloured thinner stripes running from the stem base through to the blossom end.

Special Varietal Requirements

• Make sure that mature fruit is ripe before picking. Light green stripes must have discoloured into a normal tan colour before picking