Cocozella Di Napoli Squash

I never liked zucchini much as a summer squash but this variety has an exotic name, so I ordered the seeds, hoping for the best. What a find. Even when fairly large, the fruits are solid and meaty with a fine taste, not like regular zucchini, which is watery and bland. Also, not too many seeds. No problems in growing, even though we are having one heck of a drought high temperatures month after month. No insect damage whatsoever. Didn't have to fertilize. However, the zucchini I am growing (it's still producing as of today, Aug. 10/18) doesn't look quite like in the photo. There's no yellow stripes - more like light green instead. I wonder what is the difference between this variety and Striata d'Italia. Also, this is one summer squash that tastes great raw. Thank you, Baker Creek Seed Co.

This was my first year growing this squash. It seems that with summer squash it is a question of when the pests win as opposed to if. Long after my yellow squash had given up the ghost to squash bugs and the like this Cocozelle was growing green, hardy and producing squash. This will be my "go to" zucchini seed. How refreshing after spending years watching the bugs ravage my summer squash.

I grew this and another variety of yellow squash. The yellow squash produced good early then was attacked by bugs & never quite came back. This zucchini was a little slower to grow, but produced great foliage with tons of male flowers which seemed resistant to the bugs. To this day it still has not produced a single female flower. My online research said I should be more patient...we're well past that. At this point I have been harvesting my yellow squash for over a month. I can see new baby blossoms coming in and they are all still male. Some other research suggested I might have high nitrogen, but it is growing next to tomatoes that do not indicate high nitrogen. Can anyone shed light on this issue?

Really tasty. Huge plant, so make sure you space adequately

Fantastic Summer Squash! Produces tons of squash for a long time! It is a lot like zucchini but not full of seeds like a zucchini gets especially when it grows large. Had some get 2.5 feet long when we were away for several days and they still weren't full of seeds. Freezes great too!