These are some of the squashes that I've grown this year.
Not a massive harvest but it should see us through some meals during the winter. It seems to be a bit hit or miss as to how many squashes I can grow. Some varieties produce loads (like last year) but don't taste that good. This year I concentrated on a couple that I know taste good, Turks Turban and Crown Prince, these are true winter squashes and so store well, the hundreds that I grew last year were only really any good to bulk out meals and tasted of very little, a disappointment really.
What variety of squash do you grow and if you're going for self sufficiency how big of an area do you grow with them?
Without question the best I grow are Butternuts and Delicata; and both delicious.
ReplyDeleteI grew crook neck and the two you sent me pleased with our harvest I miss not growing butternut this year its on the list for next year :-)
ReplyDeleteMine were decimated by the local slug mafioso this year. I have Boston winter squash and summer crookneck seed so far, Crown Prince is on my "to buy" list. I may try Butternut again, not sure yet.
ReplyDeleteYour squash are lovely! This next year I have a new butternut I am trying with high hopes! Its a wrinkled skin one. One year I did have a very good Sugar Baby Pumpkin harvest. I need to plant those again this next spring as I am out of canned pumpkin! The squash take up a lot of space for sure in the garden.
ReplyDeleteCrown Prince and Butternut for me. I grow them under the sweet corn and on the big compost heap
ReplyDeleteI swear by my butternuts. Good keepers, great taste and the squash bugs don't bother the vines. The flesh is firm and can be roasted or steamed. It's even fine for pies. I usually get more than I can handle on just one plant and my friends enjoy the extras. Funny thing - I've not planted a butternut in over 5 years. But every year a volunteer shows up in the compost. Gotta love the convenience. LOL
ReplyDeletequeensland blue last year. they lasted really well through the winter in the shed. the taste is good. Nice roasted and soup. A good all rounder. I read about them on the blog the greening of gavin years ago and I thought they looked like good keepers.
ReplyDeleteAlthough friends gave us a butternut this year that was very good, the only winter squash I've grown for several years is the Red Kuri. The flesh is a deep orange and has the best flavor! I plant two hills of them, each hill about 6' apart. I thin the seedlings to two plants per hill and get A LOT of them, enough to give away some. They do vine and crawl about. I know I should give them more space of their own, but instead just let them go visit their "neighbors" watching that they don't choke them out!
ReplyDeleteI've grown butternut squashes, although this year's attempt was a bust. The plants flowered, but it seems no bees came to pollinate under too late in the season. I did get one pumpkin, which will make a very small pie.
ReplyDeleteMy most successful squash year was also the most heartbreaking. I had 37 squashes that only needed the rest of that day for curing and figured i'd pick them after work. When I got home, I found that groundhogs had beaten me to it and ate all but three.
Turks Turban! My God, how racist and demeaning to the proud Turkish People. Where's that number for reporting hate speech there in England....I got it here somewhere.... ;-)
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