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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 14, 2015 20:31:55 GMT -5
anyone ever grow these squash? Long White Bush 2 Golden Hook pumpkin Seeds?? ??
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Post by steev on May 14, 2015 20:41:19 GMT -5
Had you not labelled that Long White as a squash, I'd have thought it an eggplant.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 14, 2015 21:22:08 GMT -5
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 14, 2015 22:19:20 GMT -5
Hmm... It was the first photo i saw. Amazon seeds are always suspicious. How about this one?
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 14, 2015 22:21:16 GMT -5
I'd be interested in a white crookedneck summer squash instead of the usual yellow. Thats why i mentioned it. Perhaps a nice breeding project for someone?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 14, 2015 22:33:18 GMT -5
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Post by jondear on May 14, 2015 23:36:18 GMT -5
Fedco lists white bush as a Lebanese type.
But by far, we like the patty pan types better to eat. It's pretty hard to beat a bunch of small bennings green tint.
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Post by steev on May 15, 2015 0:50:51 GMT -5
Yeah; from the leaves and stems. that's a squash.
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Post by prairiegarden on May 15, 2015 7:25:03 GMT -5
That long white bush one reminds me of what my father called vegetable marrow. Although -if I remember correctly - that may have had faint green stripes (I haven't seen it in years, what I've seen sold as vegetable marrow seed doesn't look anything at all like what he grew). If it's the same thing it's very mild flavoured to the point of having almost none, so he cut the flesh up and made it into jam with ginger and lemon. In one of my old cookbooks it says that any housewife worth her salt would grow them to make an inexpensive jam for the winter. Sort of a statement on how much things have changed since THAT cookbook was written! The jam was very tasty.
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Post by zeedman on May 17, 2015 16:56:30 GMT -5
The 3rd squash looks very much like the Tahitian Melon Squash that I grew when I lived in San Diego. Long DTM, but very large squash (my largest was just under 40 pounds) and very sweet even sliced up raw.
The squash in the second photo looks interesting... but chances are good that they are all hybrids.
Oh, and I believe the first photo is of a white eggplant, that appears to be the calyx just visible on the stem end.
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Post by taihaku on May 21, 2015 15:24:50 GMT -5
long white squash looks a lot like a cousa courgette I grew called Trieste White (http://www.realseeds.co.uk/courgettes.html). Didn't do great the year I grew it (none of my squash did that year) but absolutely delicious.
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