On Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 9:00:23 AM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
Frank wrote:
On 9/28/2020 4:23 AM, T wrote:
Gorgeous!

I liked them too.
thanks!

i managed to get a bucket of the small squash gone
through yesterday, cleaned and baked.

some of them weren't even done yet and i discarded
them after previous years experiments in baking or
cooking with them i decided i just didn't like them
enough and the worms will appreciate them more when
i bury them in the gardens later today instead.

the buttercup variety we tried this year i will
give one more try next year. the taste and texture
are a lot more like an acorn squash than the buttercup
i was hoping for.

the kabocha and pumpkin variegated cross seems to
be doing well enough so we'll keep growing that.

i haven't cooked up any of the hubbards yet, i hope
they store and age well as i'm not sure when i'll get
back to them to cook one up.


songbird

I planted buttercups this year and didn't think they yielded anything. Recently, I went out to the pumpkin patch and noticed 7 or 8 of them hiding under the leaves of the pumpkin vines. The cantaloupes did well, but we didn't get anything from the petit gris melons. The vines were very petit and got buried under the vines and leaves of the usual pumpkins.

We planted blue hubbards for a few years now; they tend to keep well for several months if kept cool. We put the pumpkin harvest in out unheated garage and if any are noticed spoiling, they go over the fence to the sheep, who really enjoy a pumpkin treat after a couple of months of hay.

Looks like a good harvest of the Dikenson pumpkins this year; those are the commercial variety that get processed into the pumpkin pie filling you find at the grocery store.

Paul