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Squash Green Lightning

High-Yield, Early, and Bursting with Flavor

Product Description

Fast to mature—enjoy early harvests and continuous production all summer.
High-yielding plants that stay compact, vigorous, and easy to manage.
Excellent eating quality with tender texture and rich, sweet flavor.
Disease-tolerant variety that thrives in heat and varied conditions.

Bring lightning-fast production and top-tier eating quality to your garden with Green Lightning Squash, a standout All-America Selections (AAS) Winner recognized for its superior performance, flavor, and productivity. This vigorous variety takes off quickly, producing a steady stream of glossy, medium-green fruits with tender skins and firm, buttery-sweet flesh. Whether you're sautéing, grilling, spiralizing, or baking, Green Lightning shines in every dish.

Compact, well-behaved plants thrive in raised beds, in-ground plantings, or large containers. Even under heat or variable weather, this AAS-winning squash remains strong, disease-tolerant, and consistently productive. Keep harvesting, and the plants will reward you with more.

Pkt of Approx. 20 Seeds for $7.99

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Zone
3-10
Light
Full Sun
Height
24 - 36 inches
Spacing
36 - 48 inches

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Zone
3-10
Light
Full Sun
Height
24 - 36 inches
Spacing
36 - 48 inches

Botanical NameCurcurbita pepo 'Green Lightning'

ColorMedium and light green striping.

FormVegetable, squash

Height24 - 36 inches

Size20 Seed Packet

Spread36 - 54 inches

Hardiness Zone3-10
Depth1 - 1-1/2 inches deep.

LightFull Sun

Soil RequirementsSandy Soil

Spacing36 - 48 inches

Estimated Ship Date:

Shipping Information

Plants will be shipped at the proper planting time for your area of the country using the shipping time frames outlined in the table. We continually monitor weather conditions for extreme hot or cold and adjust shipping schedules as needed. Due to hot weather conditions, we are unable to ship most plant items in July and August. Items that are overweight will require an additional shipping charge depending on
weight.

The type of product you order or the weather in our area to yours may affect the anticipated shipping schedule, shifting earlier or later, depending.

Trees and shrubs are kept in the nursery row until full dormant for optimum stress protection.

In all cases, we choose the fastest, most efficient way to send your orders via the U.S. Postal Service or FedEx. Large orders or large items may be shipped to you in multiple packages.

Sorry, we cannot ship products to Hawaii, Alaska, APO/FPO or outside the contiguous United States. Please provide a street address as some products are unable to be delivered to Post Offce boxes.

Shipping Schedule

Seeds

Zones	Shipping Dates	Last Order Date
3A - 10B	1/1/25 - 12/31/25	12/31/25

Shipping Information

Plants will be shipped at the proper planting time for your area of the country using the shipping time frames outlined in the table. We continually monitor weather conditions for extreme hot or cold and adjust shipping schedules as needed. Due to hot weather conditions, we are unable to ship most plant items in July and August. Items that are overweight will require an additional shipping charge depending on
weight.

The type of product you order or the weather in our area to yours may affect the anticipated shipping schedule, shifting earlier or later, depending.

Trees and shrubs are kept in the nursery row until full dormant for optimum stress protection.

In all cases, we choose the fastest, most efficient way to send your orders via the U.S. Postal Service or FedEx. Large orders or large items may be shipped to you in multiple packages.

Sorry, we cannot ship products to Hawaii, Alaska, APO/FPO or outside the contiguous United States. Please provide a street address as some products are unable to be delivered to Post Offce boxes.

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Estimated Ship Date:

Shipping Information

Plants will be shipped at the proper planting time for your area of the country using the shipping time frames outlined in the table. We continually monitor weather conditions for extreme hot or cold and adjust shipping schedules as needed. Due to hot weather conditions, we are unable to ship most plant items in July and August. Items that are overweight will require an additional shipping charge depending on
weight.

The type of product you order or the weather in our area to yours may affect the anticipated shipping schedule, shifting earlier or later, depending.

Trees and shrubs are kept in the nursery row until full dormant for optimum stress protection.

In all cases, we choose the fastest, most efficient way to send your orders via the U.S. Postal Service or FedEx. Large orders or large items may be shipped to you in multiple packages.

Sorry, we cannot ship products to Hawaii, Alaska, APO/FPO or outside the contiguous United States. Please provide a street address as some products are unable to be delivered to Post Offce boxes.

Shipping Schedule

Seeds

Zones	Shipping Dates	Last Order Date
3A - 10B	1/1/25 - 12/31/25	12/31/25

Shipping Information

Plants will be shipped at the proper planting time for your area of the country using the shipping time frames outlined in the table. We continually monitor weather conditions for extreme hot or cold and adjust shipping schedules as needed. Due to hot weather conditions, we are unable to ship most plant items in July and August. Items that are overweight will require an additional shipping charge depending on
weight.

The type of product you order or the weather in our area to yours may affect the anticipated shipping schedule, shifting earlier or later, depending.

Trees and shrubs are kept in the nursery row until full dormant for optimum stress protection.

In all cases, we choose the fastest, most efficient way to send your orders via the U.S. Postal Service or FedEx. Large orders or large items may be shipped to you in multiple packages.

Sorry, we cannot ship products to Hawaii, Alaska, APO/FPO or outside the contiguous United States. Please provide a street address as some products are unable to be delivered to Post Offce boxes.

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