Northern Star

Outstanding Qualities

• Early maturing hybrid
• Open plant for easier harvesting
• Dark green fruit

Northern Star is an early maturing zucchini with very high yield potential.  The fruit is uniform, attractive and medium to dark green.  The plants are open with few spines to enable faster and more efficient harvesting with reduced fruit damage.  Labour prefers harvesting varieties with fewer spines.  Northern Star is an excellent high yielding variety with quality fruit and has intermediate resistance to Watermelon mosaic virus (WMV).

Special Varietal Requirements

• Suitable for production during summer and in winter in sub-tropical areas
• Squash seed can germinate satisfactory between 15 and 35°C. When expected average soil temperatures are lower than 15°C, we suggest the use of seedlings
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