Yesterday once I stained the oak floor and had a clear up I managed to have half an hour in the garden.
Some of the leaves on the squash plants have started to die back so I decide to collect up the ones with hard stalks and looked ripe. I was a little disappointed as there wasn't as many as I thought there might be. For so many leaves, taking up so much space, many of squash weren't that big. I know that it might be the variety but on tope of this a complete row of butternuts had failed to produce a single veg that I could harvest.
Still there's enough here to keep us feed on Sunday roasts and soups through some of the winter and I'm sure there are some more under the leaves waiting to be found!
How has everyone elses squash harvest been?
Our squash are nearly done as well, and not such a big harvest as we thought we would have either. Not to worry, some squash is better than none! But hey! Our squash are the bog standard looking type, but yours look really fancy dancy!
ReplyDeleteI used to grow butternut as well but they didn't come through this year. I find their taste isn't as good as some of the others and I prefer the ones that look a little fancy!
DeleteHim Outside had a rough count of butternuts and thinks there are about 130! We had quite a lot of plants, 3 or 4 dozen, I can't remember. But we just plant them out on the field and leave them to get on with it, and it was very dry here for months. We will sell them for £1 each - very handy income!
ReplyDeleteThats a lot of plants to put in they must take up a lot of space! sounds like a nice extra income. Maybe I should look at doing that next year for a bit of pin money
DeleteWe didn't have that good of year though we had a few butternut. The bugs seem to be bothering winter squash now where they used to only go after summer varieties. Even pumpkins did little. We had a real wet and cool summer so that may have had something to do with it. I fixed butternut soup last night.
ReplyDeleteThe last butternut soup I did I ruined! We don;t really have bugs affecting our squash over here they're relatively trouble free
DeleteI grew green courgettes, didn't get off to a good start as the wood pigeons kept pulling out the seeds from the pots! I also grew 'patty pan white' only because the seeds where free...had lots of fruit from them, they are not very exciting in the flavour department.
ReplyDeleteI plan to grow the traditional pumpkins ( only 1 - 2 plants because of space) and butternut squash as I love them roasted and in roasted BN soup.
Try crown prince and turks turban as well they're tastey ones. As for courgettes we had so many ven the chickens got fed up of them!
DeleteToms and butternuts but not as many as I hoped there would be. Too many apples but I've been giving them away.
ReplyDeleteYeah my toms weren't that great, yet my mums plants looked worse than mine and somehow produced more!
DeleteI don't have enough room for them sadly, I did try some courgettes in large pots but total failure ! I love your picture, it could have come straight from a gardening book ! I would frame it and hang it in the kitchen for inspiration for next year.
ReplyDeleteI must try to grow a greater variety next year for a better photo. I always love gathering them in and seeing how many we've got!
DeleteHi, I'm over from the lovely John Grey's Blog... I've never grown squash; did have wonderful courgettes three years ago & this year I was given three tomato plants & I have loved the harvest - still going strong and outside all summer !
ReplyDeleteReading through your older posts, I was really surprised to see you could eat Nasturtium seeds ! I knew about the flowers but not the seeds !
Yeah the nasturtium is a good plant to grow - you can eat the leaves as well. Courgettes are always a good one to grow as a couple of plants will give you more than you'll want to eat!
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