How many plants for average family:
1 or 2 per family.

Type of plant:
perennial vine.

Best Varieties:

Sowing:
Simply take a whole choko and place it in a dark cupboard and wait for it to sprout. Plant it out into the garden when the sprouting tip is about 2 or 3 cm long. Bury the choko in the ground with the tip just above the surface.

NB: ONLY 1 CHOKO IS NEEDED
(This is a reference for my Hawkesbury College students who tried to convince me that you need 2 for successful fruit - it is only an old wives tale!)

Growing Habit:
Chokos are vigorous climbers, renown for growing over the old outdoor dunny!

Give it some sort of support like a pergola, trellis, lattice or even a tree stump to grow over.

Growing Conditions:
Fertilise the soil in spring with some blood and bone and manure and that's about all you'll need to do.

If you keep up a good water supply, then you'll have chokos for a good 8 months in warmer areas.

Companions:

Problems:
None that I know.

They're as tough as old boots!

For more information:

Woolworths - Ingredient Details
Food Facts. CHOKO. DESCRIPTION. The choko is a pear-shaped vegetable which grows on a vine. Its flesh is pale green with a single soft seed. The small light green chokos are more tender. ... When buying a choko, choose firm, fresh ones with no brown spots or sprouting ...
http://www.woolworths.com.au/recipes/dispingredientdetails.asp?ingredientid=53

Cooking with Choko - Asian Online Recipes
... Cooking with Choko. A squash from tropical America, it is also known in that part of the ... christophene, custard marrow, mirliton, pepinella and vegetable pear. A perennial vine, it ...
http://www.asianonlinerecipes.com/rss/index.php?itemid=294

The ugly truth - theage.com.au
The choko is no oil painting, but it is certainly versatile, writes Allen Gilbert. - The Age ... The choko is often judged to be a common vegetable without much taste ... image of this unusual fruit used as a vegetable was tarnished during the Depression as it became ...
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/28/1062050612273.html

Chokos
... bit of pepper will perk up a steamed choko. Cook the choko with the skin still on it ... a boiled, steamed or baked vegetable is basically how we use them ...
http://www.seriousstyle.org/new-957420-425.html

Chokoes in White Sauce | Vegetable Recipes @ CDKitchen.com :: it's what's cooking online!
... (1=easiest :: hardest=5) Categories: Vegetable Recipes ... Boil in enough water with half teaspoon salt, to cover choko pieces until tender, but not soft ...
http://www.cdkitchen.com/rec/amcprint.php?mid=2502&scale=1

Asian Online Recipes - Cooking with Choko
About cooking with choko ... chayote, christophene, custard marrow, mirliton, pepinella and vegetable pear. A perennial vine, it adapts well ...
ttp://www.asianonlinerecipes.com/food_articles/cooking-choko.php