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Post by castanea on Nov 6, 2012 23:30:43 GMT -5
The two on the left I bought at the Hollywood, CA Sunday market. The two on the right I bought at the Sacramento Sunday market. From left to right: Moroccan, Tahitian squash that did not breed true, Guatemalan Blue, and Giant Blue Hubbard Attachments:
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Post by steev on Nov 7, 2012 0:00:19 GMT -5
You forgot to note the banana "squash". Hope you report on the two at left; I've got the two on the right in plenitude.
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Post by castanea on Nov 7, 2012 0:27:25 GMT -5
The banana is in there just to provide some idea as to the size of the squash
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Post by steev on Nov 7, 2012 0:57:10 GMT -5
You know I knew that, I hope.
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Post by castanea on Nov 7, 2012 1:08:14 GMT -5
I know you did, but I was thinking that other people might be curious after you brought it up.
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Post by 12540dumont on Nov 7, 2012 13:42:14 GMT -5
oh oh, one of these things are not like the other. These are both from my garden. Attachments:
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Post by templeton on Nov 7, 2012 15:53:06 GMT -5
oh oh, one of these things are not like the other. These are both from my garden. Yeah, but I can't tell how big they are Holly... ...and by what quirk of history did the US adopt a tropical fruit as a unit of volumetric measure of large vegetables? or is this just a Californian thing? ;D T
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Post by steev on Nov 7, 2012 21:14:06 GMT -5
It's from our glorious history in Central America supporting that paragon of free enterprise, the United Fruit Company. No other fruit was quite so evocative of what was being done there.
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Post by 12540dumont on Nov 7, 2012 21:20:41 GMT -5
What do you get when you cross a Naples Long with a Butternut? Naplenut? Long Nut? Butterlong? nutternut? Well the size shortens, but becomes fatter. Down more to about 5 pounds rather than 40 pounds. Still a bit too stringy. It made a lovely pie. At least I think so, because there was none left. Needs work. Story of my life...everything needs work. Attachments:
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Post by circumspice on Nov 7, 2012 21:26:08 GMT -5
Story of my life...everything needs work.
Holly, we're all a work in progress till the day we die.
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Post by castanea on Nov 7, 2012 22:22:01 GMT -5
oh oh, one of these things are not like the other. These are both from my garden. Yeah, but I can't tell how big they are Holly... ...and by what quirk of history did the US adopt a tropical fruit as a unit of volumetric measure of large vegetables? or is this just a Californian thing? ;D T It's all I had laying around the house that would immediately convey to everyone the sizes we were dealing with. Commercial bananas are pretty much always the same size. Today, I have no bananas so I don't know what I would use....
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Post by steev on Nov 7, 2012 23:36:23 GMT -5
Holly, I'm thinking that's the two halves of one fruit, but it just doesn't look to be, in the photo?
I am reminded of once when I was watching a slide presentation of artifacts; one slide showed something, with a dime for scale; I remarked "They expect us to believe that's a real dime!". Another participant responded in high dudgeon, "Of course it is! That's the whole point of putting it there!" It must be tough to be absurdity-impaired.
To return to commercial bananas, however, they appear to be seriously threatened, being mostly clones of one variety, which is currently under pathogen attack. They're seedless, of course, so one can suppose disease-defense efforts will be rather awful. Yo! Folks! Landrace bananas? There are many, often damned good. Mostly, they just don't ship well or mature conveniently. Sounds like tomatoes, eh?
I'm not even going to start on pineapple, or papaya, or...
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Post by templeton on Nov 7, 2012 23:56:09 GMT -5
Story of my life...everything needs work. Holly, we're all a work in progress till the day we die. Sometimes I'm a 'feet up having a beer' in progress... ...and is there a uniformly sized fruit or vegetable we could use as a unit of measure - besides the carob seed? Back to the farmers' market squash, I'm just planting my seed this week, and intend putting in a couple of market purchases - a grey tan moschata that was very tasty, and a Kent or Jap we roasted last night, purchased from the supermarket sometime in the distant past, and rescued from imminent slushdom from its plastic wrap cocoon in the bottom of the fridge - and beautifully sweet, perhaps as a result of its long maturation. Holly, was that an intended cross? T
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James
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Greetings from Utah -- James
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Post by James on Nov 8, 2012 0:18:12 GMT -5
Interesting. I am curious why you need so much squash?
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Post by wolfcub on Nov 8, 2012 12:53:27 GMT -5
Holly two of the Naples Long you sent me were round with no neck the other two plants were the right shape with a long neck go figure!!!
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