Author Topic: I feel somewhat squashed! (Read 4693 times)

chriscross1966 · « **on:** September 27, 2009, 21:13:09 »

My squashes and pumpkins this year.

The butternuts are mostly Harrier though the biggest of them is the sole Waltham to have set. The little acorn squash (the most numerous) is Winter Festival, the orange Hubbards are Uchiki Kuri, the green buttercups are Bon-Bon, don't know what the pumpkin is, saved seed by my sis-in-law from a bought pumpkin for Halloween last year.

The ensemble is missing three Festivals and the second-biggest pumpkin.

Just had a Harrier butternut with dinner and it was very nice roasted with some cumin seed....

chrisc

grannyjanny · « **Reply #1 on:** September 27, 2009, 21:20:40 »

Lucky you ;D. Wish I was.

lushy86 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 27, 2009, 21:29:10 »

Wow they look fab, well done :)

Lushy x

chriscross1966 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2009, 21:29:43 »

Quote from: grannyjanny on September 27, 2009, 21:20:40

Lucky you ;D. Wish I was.

What?.....roasted with cumin seed?

grannyjanny · « **Reply #4 on:** September 27, 2009, 21:34:29 »

No my oven's not big enough to get me in so I'll settle for feeling squashed :D.

Quote from: chriscross1966 on September 27, 2009, 21:29:43

Quote from: grannyjanny on September 27, 2009, 21:20:40
Lucky you ;D. Wish I was.

[What?.....roasted with cumin seed? ]

Doris_Pinks · « **Reply #5 on:** September 27, 2009, 22:56:33 »

Sooooooo jealous, my haul this year for some reason look pathetic.........6 butternut plants and I have 2 fruits that fit in my hand...........gutted, rest of my squash are a no show....so well done you! ;D

chriscross1966 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 27, 2009, 23:40:26 »

Quote from: Doris_Pinks on September 27, 2009, 22:56:33

Sooooooo jealous, my haul this year for some reason look pathetic.........6 butternut plants and I have 2 fruits that fit in my hand...........gutted, rest of my squash are a no show....so well done you! ;D

The butternuts were very late, without the fantastic September we've just had I'd have almost none, whereas the Festivals and Bon-Bons were sorting themselves out very early... the Uchiki were swamped by the bon-bon but the fruit they set were pretty early too....

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #7 on:** September 28, 2009, 02:46:19 »

That's quite a heartening winter stash of squash!

BAK · « **Reply #8 on:** September 28, 2009, 07:32:09 »

very impressive chrisc. What variety is the strange bottle-shaped green one ;)

saddad · « **Reply #9 on:** September 28, 2009, 07:41:06 »

;D I hadn't spotted that one... :)

1066 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:34:51 »

thats a great haul ChrisCross!
Tell us the reipie you use for beer and pumpkin pie/soup/curry/ ........ ;) And don't say surprise ::)

Jayb · « **Reply #11 on:** September 28, 2009, 08:42:00 »

A very handsome harvest.

chriscross1966 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:08:17 »

Quote from: 1066 on September 28, 2009, 08:34:51

thats a great haul ChrisCross!
Tell us the reipie you use for beer and pumpkin pie/soup/curry/ ........ ;) And don't say surprise ::)

I find the easiest way to get beer is to go down the off-licence/supermarket :D.... THe roast butternut I had yesterday was just cut into lumps (skin on) deseeded and shaken in a bag with some olive oil and cumin seeds adn ground black pepper and roasted for 45 minutes on abut gas mark 7...

chrisc

shirlton · « **Reply #13 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:10:54 »

I don't think I'll bother showing you mine ;D

1066 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 28, 2009, 09:31:15 »

Quote from: shirlton on September 28, 2009, 09:10:54

I don't think I'll bother showing you mine ;D

me neither !! ;D

cornykev · « **Reply #15 on:** September 28, 2009, 17:28:07 »

Go on girls, just a quick flash. :P ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

shirlton · « **Reply #16 on:** September 28, 2009, 17:41:23 »

manicscousers · « **Reply #17 on:** September 28, 2009, 18:38:42 »

I'm quite happy, considering all the butternuts died in the manky weather, the largest of these is a red kuri from saddad's open day, it weighs 3.5 lbs, should make some nice meals :)

macmac · « **Reply #18 on:** September 28, 2009, 18:44:05 »

There I was feeling really pleased with my haul,'had to bring them home as someone else was helping themselves

still a million times better than last year

Borlotti · « **Reply #19 on:** September 28, 2009, 18:48:23 »

Squash soup tonight, a gift from another good friend from the allotment. I am so lucky, just walk about and people give me veg. and their veg is alway bigger and better than what I grow.

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