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saddad

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Serpent Squash
« on: October 03, 2020, 15:17:37 »
Well we have a couple... but no idea what to do with them...

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Re: Serpent Squash
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2020, 16:00:26 »
My garden is smaller than your Rome, but my pilum is harder than your sternum!

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Re: Serpent Squash
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2020, 16:40:55 »
Titter ye not!

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Re: Serpent Squash
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2020, 20:51:27 »
Store it for a bit for the flavour to intensify, then eat like butternut.   :wave:

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Re: Serpent Squash
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2020, 22:45:07 »
It's in the garage, maturing as we speak!

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Re: Serpent Squash
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2020, 08:24:35 »
Yes we have rather long ones too. They’re gourds rather than squash aren’t they? White flowers. I’ve seen them hardened off and painted to look like snakes - maybe scare the cats from my garden? Novel draft excluder perhaps?

We didn’t like the taste of the small fruits so don’t really want to eat the big ones either.

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Re: Serpent Squash
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2020, 11:25:53 »
If they are the white flowered ones, then my advice above was wrong.  I thought they were the yellow flowered type.  Nothing will make these white flowered ones edible past the very young stage.  Sorry if I gave you the wrong idea.  Maybe they can be turned into an alphorn?   :BangHead: 

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Re: Serpent Squash
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2020, 22:34:09 »
Definitely white flowered... but worth growing just for the S#D factor!

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Re: Serpent Squash
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2020, 12:29:35 »
Suggest you grow Tromba d'Albenga instead next year.   
Snake gourds are interesting, but not good to eat.

 

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