Topic: Are my squash ready yet?

[twinkletoes]

Same old question  ;D    I have Red Kuri and Baby Blue Hubbard.  Both "look" ready but are they?  The Red Kuri is very deep orange and Baby Blue is a mottle greeny blue colour.  The Musque de Provence are not ready yet (I don't think) - they are a very deep racing car green (for some reason I thought they would be orangy?)  ::)
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[saddad]

I've had some Kuri so yes probably. The   Musque isn't and will go orange at the end of the season or in store...  :)

[twinkletoes]

Oh I am sooooo excited now - I'll be grabbing a RK this evening now.  Can hardly wait to see the MdeP - got some crackers.   ;D ;D

[shirlton]

Is the red kuri a summer or winter squash?

[thifasmom]

i thought it was winter ???

[Duke Ellington]

Ok so I am growing both red kuri and baby blue hubbard squashes.They are winter squashes and mine wont be ready until around the end of September or October. You are lucky if yours are ready now !!

Duke:)

[shirlton]

Thank goodness thats been settled. There was me thinking I was going to have to eat the bloomin things now. Can just about get the courgettes down our gullets. ;D

[daileg]

Squash should be stored for a couple of weeks before you cook them as this gives the natural sugars a chance to  enhance the flavour if consumed before this the taste will not be as good

[tricia]

In June I had a Red Kuri and a Buttercup which each produced just one fruit. Then came rainy July and since then - even with hand pollinating - no more have grown. Those two, however, are ripe and are now 'curing' in my porch. I also have three butternut plants which - with help - are only now starting to produce fruit. All the rainy weather has left me with a very poor showing this year and I'm not sure if the butternuts will have long enough to ripen on the plants. The Red Kuri and the Buttecup plants are looking very sorry for themselves, so I think I'll pull them out - I'm sure they won't produce any more now.

Tricia

[saddad]

So did I but it was a good orange, hard skin, wasn't swelling so I ate it...  :-X

[twinkletoes]

Mornin' all.   ;D  Well, you lot have got me right confused now   ::)  So, I plucked a Baby Blue and a couple of Red Kuri last night.  One of the RKs could have been left but the other was a beautiful deep orange and sounded and felt hollow.  So, they are now sitting on the window ledge to go through "the cure".   So how long should I leave them daileg?   I have been very lucky - I have loads of RKs and quite a few BBH.  And am positively overrun with Musque de Provence  ::) ::) (probably too many plants in eh? ;D).  The butternuts always seem to start of slowly - nothing but male flowers but once they take off.... so got quite a few of those too (my favourites - yummy).  Don't know what happened to the Sweet Dumpling though.  All I need to do now is find the Valentine Warner recipes for the RK and BBH squashes.
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