I grew one in coastal southeastern MA a few summers ago. It went utterly rampant and set over 50 fruits. None of them were really high-grade on flavor, however. I have had very tasty ones grown in fla.

You have a much longer hot season in central NC, so I think SP will do quite well. Flavor is kind of ephemeral with winter squash, IME. Have you grown really flavorful ones there?

I have some SP seed naturalized to central fla if you want to try it. I don't know if southern exposure grows their own, if so that would be well adapted to your region.

Flavor report?

Well, I'm kind of a winter squash snob. I like delicatas for cutting into rings and grilling, Burgess buttercup (High Mowing strain) absolute best for pies, but when the buttercups start going bad in January, the butternuts start to shine. The pumpkin moschatas (descended from Southern Exposure pumpkin squash seed) have crossed with Waltham butternut at least twice in my garden, so they're better tasting and darker orange than most pumpkins. Flavor? I made "pumpkin bread" with one today, and had to hide the leftovers so they would be around for breakfast.

I put all the moschata trash in one compost heap, and let them they come back year after year, sometimes in various shapes. I thin back to 3-4 of these moschata recruits, or they will bury us.

Southern Exposure has sold out Tennessee vining squash. I'll have to wait for next year to try it. Does this squash resist to squash bugs too?

Pbbrown, thank you for your offer of SP seeds. SP seeds are still available from Southern Exposure and their price is reasonable. I'm sending in my order tonight.

My family loves winter squash, especially Japanese Kabocha squash. Even Butternut from the stores is great in soup. It is a pity SVB and squash bugs pressure was so high in my garden, they killed all my Butternut plants last year. I know Kabocha won't have any chance at all.

If Seminole pumpkin produces for me and its flavor is comparable to Butternut, it will always have a place in my garden.

Even with borers, many squash will keep growing and producing if you encourage them to root along the stem where they touch the ground. Lots of OP strains do this with some enthusiasm.

If you haven't seen it already, I believe there is a long thread on this squash in the Heirlooms forum (linked at the top of this forum's main page) that spans several years and might have some interesting growing experiences.

~emmers

ah, I found it:

Here is a link that might be useful: sp thread