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There were lots of green snap beans, stalks of yellow sweet corn, Sea Island red peas, crookneck squash, benne seeds, and purple okra that looked like fingers reaching for the sky.

They have a bulbous base that tapers at the other end and fall into either the crookneck or straightneck category, which simply indicates whether the plant curves.

Varieties include yellow squash, zucchini and crookneck squash.

That Saturday dawn found them riding to yet another field of crookneck squash.

Summer squash, despite the name, is generally available year-round; varieties include zucchini, yellow, pattypan and crookneck.