Good morning Nick.

Growing them there might be a real challenge. I would put them in full sun,
on a raised bed, and give it a try. I like to experiment in my garden and
see what I come up with.

In my opinion they are sweeter than the butternut. I am diabetic and cant
eat much with sugar added to it. I raise sweet potatoes also. Most
Americans bake them in a dish with brown sugar and add butter to them before
eating to make them moist. I found a way to cook them that makes them not
so dry when you get ready to eat them, and I cure them longer to make them
sweet enough I don't add sugar to them.

You are correct. Americans eat too much sugar. My wife made something
(cookies or cake) for a Chinese family that lived next door to us one time.
We went to a party at their house about 2 weeks later, and found that they
had not eaten what we gave them. I ask him later if there was something
wrong, and he told me it was too sweet for them.

Not all pumpkin pie recipes call for molasses. I would be happy to send, or
post one for you if any of are willing to try it. I guess it is how we are
raised. I used to love to eat pie and ice cream after a meal, or as a
between meal snack. I still can as long as I don't go over 150
carbohydrates a day.

Dwayne


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In article ,
"Dwayne" writes:
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| I am in the USA, with a growing season from the end of May through Sept
20.
| I start the seeds inside about a month before planting them outside.
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| The one I like better is called Hopi Indian Squash. It gets a really
bright
| reddish orange. The taste is sweeter and they get bigger. If you
want,
| contact me direct and I will get you an address to write or E-mail.

Interesting. A quick Web scan indicates that is C. argyrosperma,
which I have never heard of being grown in the UK. Because of
our miserably cold and wet summers, all squashes are very marginal
here, and the only ones that are reliable are the hardier forms of
C. pepo.

HOWEVER, it seems that Tennessee Sweet Potato is a C. moschata,
like butternut (a real b*gg*r to grow in the UK), and I have got
two good ones. I shall report when we have eaten one.

When you say that it is sweeter - sweeter than what? I don't like
butternut much, because I find it sickly. Most people in the UK
don't like the amount of sugar that the USA does in their pumpkins
(e.g. USA-style pumpkin pie with lots of molasses is generally
disliked, and pumpkin pie with no sweetening and mustard is more
to many people's taste).

I should be interested in trying C. argyrosperma.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.