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Post by steev on Sept 20, 2011 0:44:42 GMT -5
Well, there's the problem; I'm not strange.
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floricole
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39 acres, half wooded half arable, land of alluvial
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Post by floricole on Oct 22, 2011 18:54:12 GMT -5
here is what I have grown this year in Quebec Canadian zone 4 very good season will do more varities next summer ;D  |
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Post by Anton on Nov 4, 2011 6:40:04 GMT -5
Here are the winter squashes I grew this year. First maximas. MAX 161, two plants. When I planted this I had no idea what type of fruit this variety would produce, but apparently its a big orange pumpkin. The largest fruit weighted 34 kg/75 lbs.  Uncle David's Dakota Dessert, two plants, and Boston, one plant. Boston was incredibly early, I planted the seeds for all my squash on June 6th, and it produced its first ripe fruit in late august! This is by far the earliest squash I've grown so far. The strain I grew is from www.realseeds.co.uk/ And moschatas; I had about ten plants, of which three had produced fully ripe fruit in the field by October 7th, when I picked all squashes. About half of the plants came from Joseph's landrace, half from other sources. The earliest was the one in the upper left corner of the photo, it could be Harrier F1?  |
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Post by raymondo on Nov 4, 2011 15:45:23 GMT -5
Nice collections.
I'm pleased to see a good yield from Uncle David's Dakota Dessert. It's one I want to grow again this year as it is delicious roasted. Boston looks well worth growing too because of its earliness - less than 3 months to harvest is impressive. Pity the company doesn't ship outside Europe.
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Post by darwinslair on Nov 10, 2011 7:32:40 GMT -5
Nothing is set in stone, but based on this year's results, this is my approx list for next spring:
For Mochata, I will grow out from three of the genetic expressions I am segregating from the odd crookneck I got some years ago from Burpee Butterbush. All around 80 DTM. One is a large butternut, another is about a 5# crookneck, and the other is about a 3# club looking squash that is really prolific. We will see how well they hold.
For Maxima I am going to continue on the Arikara/Knife River landrace. Another where I had really short season plants. Many less than 80 DTM. Only exception to that is I will plant Amish Pie in one location.
For Pepo, Most locations will get Thelma Sanders. I do Zucchini too, but dont need more than a dozen plants of those so one location will get them.
Maybe I will put some pumpkins in a corn grow out somewhere but have not decided on that yet. We will see.
Tom
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Post by stylemichelle21 on Nov 10, 2011 9:18:06 GMT -5
A lot of great ideas from you guys...I have some room and I may give pumpkins or winter squash a shot. Anyone have any input on what type of pumpkin/winter squash would be best for a novice gardener?
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Post by olddog on Nov 10, 2011 9:29:41 GMT -5
Just received from a friend, an old Chumash squash, Bavadi, and am going to plant it.
It is one of the ugliest squash I have seen, but stores for such a long time, so am looking forward to growing it. We are breaking open an extra one for Thanksgiving, for pumpkin pie, so will see how it goes.
Also, want to add, that will be glad to share seeds if I have success, and get some extra seed next year.
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Post by cortona on Nov 10, 2011 13:17:51 GMT -5
next year wil be as usual a tryal year for pumpkins, musque du maroc is one of the winner of this year...with realy little water it have produced two good fruit, of good size, vegetation are very vigorous: aggressive is a good description for this pumpkin. i've to plant two accession of zappalito da tronco and 4 other bush winter squash thet i've recived from usda grinn, i wil replant hopy orange if the quality of this year fruit are good(another variety that trive well in drought). if i can find another good spot for pumpkins i wil tryal other variety i have seeds bt ot land to plant.
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Post by flowerpower on Nov 11, 2011 7:41:18 GMT -5
A lot of great ideas from you guys...I have some room and I may give pumpkins or winter squash a shot. Anyone have any input on what type of pumpkin/winter squash would be best for a novice gardener? Plant the varieties you like to eat. All winter squash require the same amount of care during the growing season. Get a Baker Creek catalog this yr. There are lots of pics to drool over. lol |
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Post by oxbowfarm on Dec 1, 2011 19:46:34 GMT -5
How good of a squash is Thelma Sanders really? And by good in winter squash I mean non-stringy flesh with detectable sweetness. On say a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being normal grocery store acorn squash and 10 being a well-grown Delicata.
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 1, 2011 22:42:03 GMT -5
You sure you don't want boar squash? This is a sample of what those wild pigs did to my poor squash. Tim, How long's your season? Regards, Holly Attachments:
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Post by castanea on Dec 1, 2011 22:54:32 GMT -5
I planted Yuxijiangbinggua, a moschata, this year. www.kcb-samen.ch/shop/product.php?cPath=1201_13&products_id=133620It was supposed to be 140 days, but we had an extremely cool summer, and by 140 days it had barely set fruit. We had a very early light freeze one night the first week of November (at about 165 days) and what didn't die, quit growing. I wound up with a few small summer squash type fruits. They didn't come close to maturing. So, it is definitely a long season squash, and it likes some heat. |
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Post by oxbowfarm on Dec 1, 2011 23:48:43 GMT -5
Holly, about 100 to 110 days. Oxbow farm is situated in a champion frost pocket.
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Post by steev on Dec 2, 2011 0:43:27 GMT -5
Wow! That Yuxjiangbinggua is one grotty-looking squash; it must be good, or nobody would tolerate it.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Apr 27, 2012 12:48:53 GMT -5
I direct seeded some seeds a few weeks ago. It's been too cold for them to germinate yet, but I'm hopeful at least some of them will soon. I started a few seeds indoors for the other small corner of the yard. I have seedlings just emerging in peat pots for all three varieties. Hopi Black, Hopi White, and Wild Pueblo. I guess i will only have one Hopi White planting this year, so i hope it's a good producer. I'm going to let these three plantings open to cross pollinating. The Hopi Black and Wild Pueblo on the other side of the yard I'm going to try my best to hand pollinate for some pure seed. I'm also going to try (if i can) to do two dedicated reciprocal crosses to make my own heirloom-hybrids. I'm expecting Hopi Black to have really good flavour based on Sheryl's review, but i think Wild Pueblo might have some good desert genetics since it's a wild one from southeast Utah. Hopi White i have no idea. I will try to take plenty of pictures and give reviews on all three varieties after growing them this year.  |
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