Very impressive. What is it?

Whoops, sorry.

I think it's a kind of butternut?

Here is a picture of somebody holding the fruit:

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Some folks say the squash yield 5 lbs fruit, some say 25-40. I have no idea what I'm getting as I saw my first female flower bud today, but it's already yellowing so I think it's only thinking about maybe fruiting.

I hope you have a BIG garden!

I think the garden's big enough. And I have plenty of lawn to remove for it to play in too.

Apparently the fruit is 4-5 pounds when you use it as summer squash but some people say it's still tender as a 'zucchini' up to 15 pounds.

The vines travel 20-30 feet and this cooking site says they reach 20-35 pounds and one guy entered one into a contest that was 74 pounds.

Some sites also refer to it as "Long of Naples" while others refer to them separately and Dave's Garden (won't link to them) has a profile page for both. That's not confusing at all.

Here's to hoping the SVB can't kill this thing.

Here is more info from a cooking site:

Here is a link that might be useful: Piena di Napoli

Here's the translation:

piena = adj. full, brimful, full up, filled, replete, fraught; solid, big; plump, chubby

Jim

Here's the translation:

piena = adj. full, brimful, full up, filled, replete, fraught; solid, big; plump, chubby

Jim

I know how that feels, Jim. ;)

And if I'd only tried google translate, I wouldn't have thought "piena" meant "pumpkin" all this time. Hoorah for assuming.