End of summer squash harvest
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I got 70 butternuts this year ( 30 last year, and I had more than twice the space this year with a late start for most of it)
My sister lost all of hers to some kind of bug.
I usually don't pick mine this soon, but she looked at mine and said some of the funny triangle marks in mine was what were in hers before she lost them all so I picked them. I left the green ones and lost a couple that I picked to either being chewed or the stems being a bit green yet.
Dunno if they need to be in the sun for a while to harden up or if in the garage on wire racks like I have them is good enough.
Those yellow ones look like spaghetti squash. I like those but no one else here thinks they taste like enough of anything. They seem to store well, too.
My sister lost all of hers to some kind of bug.
I usually don't pick mine this soon, but she looked at mine and said some of the funny triangle marks in mine was what were in hers before she lost them all so I picked them. I left the green ones and lost a couple that I picked to either being chewed or the stems being a bit green yet.
Dunno if they need to be in the sun for a while to harden up or if in the garage on wire racks like I have them is good enough.
Those yellow ones look like spaghetti squash. I like those but no one else here thinks they taste like enough of anything. They seem to store well, too.
The bright yellow ones are actually Early Silver Stripe melons. They were an experiment this year and surprisingly successful. Normally we have very limited success with melons. The striped jobs are Delicata which are a winter favorite for us.
That looks like a great fall harvest. My wife loves squash, me not so much, although I do appreciate the effort and benefits of home grown foods, and we eat mostly organic/locally grown. That pic looks like it should be in a food magazine - nice!
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Very nice picture. It reminds that it is time to make butternut squash soup when the cool weather hits.
I'm looking forward to some good autumn soups soon, but we are up to our ears in tomato processing right now, so it will have to wait a couple weeks.
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