- Author: Brenda Dawson
Published on: August 7, 2011
![Two bunches of large, green squash on a table. You'll have to keep reading to find the names of these vegetables.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/food/blogfiles/8010small.jpg)
These are not zucchini.
Welcome to August. Are you tired of summer squash yet?
If your dinners have been overflowing with zucchini recently (like mine have), now might be a great time to try new varieties of otherwise familiar vegetables.
One of the farm advisors I work with has long touted some varieties of "Asian vegetables" as more flavorful than their traditionally "American" cousins. Here in the U.S., vegetable varieties like these are more likely to be grown by farmers — and sold to customers — who have close ties to Asian immigrant communities. Richard...
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