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Squash harvest

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Squash harvest

These squash grown in a market garden in Te Aute, Hawke’s Bay are bound for export to Japan. The Japanese name for squash is kabocha.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – Major vegetable crops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20009/squash-harvest (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.