I have several good types of winter squash seeds Golden Acorn Green Kabocha--- the best I think. Golden Nugget Giant Acorn New England 'Sugar Pumpkin' seeds Would like to trade for seeds of Paul Robeson, or Black Sea Man tomato seeds.

I would like a packet of each if possible. Am sending an email. thanks paul1972.

FWIW, a couple years ago I saved seed from supermarket acorn and the resulting plants were fabulous and gave great fruit. Shoulda saved more seed from them but I didn't. This past Spring I had a whole bunch of volunteer acorn and butternut in my compost pit, so I transplanted them in the veggie plot. The plants grew beautifully, putting out flower after flower -- ALL MALE. So I waited...and waited...and waited...and I finally said after a couple of months the heck with this and pulled those suckers. It was an all-boys club, no girls allowed.

You can clean & dry the seeds, provided that the squash was mature at the time it was harvested. However, you might not want to. For one thing, if it was a hybrid, it will not breed true in the next generation. It could also have been cross-pollinated... which again, will not breed true in the next generation, and could give you some bizarre results. Acorn squash is Cucurbita pepo, which also contains most summer squash, most pumpkins, warted gourds, and spaghetti squash. Since this species is the most widely grown of the squashes, crosses are very commonplace. Bees will fly great distances to feed on the flowers. I grew acorn squash for seed several years ago (with no other squash within 1/4 mile) and I still had 2 crosses out of 18 plants this year. If the squash would not be important for food, my advice would be: go for it. You might get something interesting, or you might get acorn squash. But if you want to be sure of what you are growing, it's better to start with pure seed.