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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 16, 2013 16:58:50 GMT -5
Yeah, I call those large boats lasagna, unless I have a handy 8 year old who wants to make a canoe.... Ahh, when the kiddo was young and fun. Joseph, Leo was worried that you'd be offended. I said that I couldn't keep naming everything St. Joe...... Really cute squash. Yes, and old Oxbow was right, Jade Numbat is pretty cool. Ray, I just love those colors!
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 1, 2013 15:16:30 GMT -5
Back of the wagon - St. Joe's Butterneck Front of the wagon - Oxbutter Both of these are butternut, some of my favorite squashes. I'd have liked to have left them just a bit longer, but the vines are drying and the squash bugs are on. Time to go. I love Joseph's long necked butternut for it's sheer beauty and lots of beautiful flesh. However, Oxbutter is about 20% more productive. I'm thinking about saving seeds from each of these and planting them together again next year. Maybe an Oxbutterneck? Of course with the productive thing, Joseph's were on the end of the row, so the first to get hit with squash bugs, which are overwhelming this year. So it's hard to make that decision based on one year alone. This was only part of the load, many more came out of the field. Joseph, your vines were smaller than Ox's. Ox's were threatening to eat beans and of course the Naked Ned Kelly escaped altogether and ran 2 rows in each direction! I had to pry them out of the peppers! Thank you gents, it sure was a pleasure growing these. I've got a lot more squash to come out of the field. Yes, there are Hopi Squash out there!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 30, 2013 13:16:04 GMT -5
It is that time of year when my skin turns orange from eating a couple of winter squash per day.
I thought it would be appropriate to follow up on this thread.
My maxima and moschata squash grew wonderfully this year and produced an abundant harvest. I really liked the F2 offspring of the various cross-pollinated fruits that I found last summer. They were such fun colors and shapes, and we talked about them for hours at the farmer's market.
The Red Kuri that my daddy planted was disappointing to him. It produced a few fruits weighing about one pound.
I harvested one mixta squash. There were a few squash in the patch that people had sent me as mixta, but they were maxima squash.
Holly's Delicata and Cucurbita foetidissima didn't grow big enough to notice. I planted the hybrid [crookneck X volunteer] seed late. I harvested two fruits from it that seem quite immature still. The phenotype was crookneck. Be interesting to see what the F2 does.
I harvested 4 mature fruits from the [Seminole Pumpkin X Joseph's moschata] cross. Three of the four were insipid tasting: Watery and dull. The fourth was watery, but it had dark orange flesh which slightly imporved the taste. I am excited about this cross. I planted Seminole Pumpkins when I started my moschata landrace, but they were way too long season for my garden. A collaborator with a longer growing season made the cross for me. Thanks. Sorry I forget who. I'm hoping that this cross will bring useful genes into my landrace which were lost during domestication.
The squash I cooked for breakfast was a long-necked butternut. It ripened the third week of August, with weeks to spare before the arrival of frost. It tastes marvelous: dry, sweet, dark-orange. It is immensely pleasing to my taste buds. This fall I have had the opportunity to taste other butternut squash and found them dreadful!!! What else could I expect? I have been selecting for years for squash that taste great to me.
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Post by littleminnie on Oct 31, 2013 10:15:57 GMT -5
Your butternuts are awesome!
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