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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: chriscross1966 on September 27, 2009, 21:13:09
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(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/chriscross1966/27092009221.jpg)
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
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Lucky you ;D. Wish I was.
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Wow they look fab, well done :)
Lushy x
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Lucky you ;D. Wish I was.
What?.....roasted with cumin seed?
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No my oven's not big enough to get me in so I'll settle for feeling squashed :D.
Lucky you ;D. Wish I was.
[What?.....roasted with cumin seed? ]
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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
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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....
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That's quite a heartening winter stash of squash!
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very impressive chrisc. What variety is the strange bottle-shaped green one ;)
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;D I hadn't spotted that one... :)
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thats a great haul ChrisCross!
Tell us the reipie you use for beer and pumpkin pie/soup/curry/ ........ ;) And don't say surprise ::)
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A very handsome harvest.
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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
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I don't think I'll bother showing you mine ;D
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I don't think I'll bother showing you mine ;D
me neither !! ;D
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Go on girls, just a quick flash. :P ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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:o
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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 :)
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There I was feeling really pleased with my haul,'had to bring them home as someone else was helping themselves (http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt149/macmac-photo/09_28_2.jpg)
still a million times better than last year
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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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Think I might harvest mine tomorrow, what with frosts perhaps due in the next few days......don't think it will rival your haul Chris, magnificent!
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:blushes:.... I was expecting counter-postings of other folks monster crops.....
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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 :)
ooh.. they look nice.... are the yellow ones Festival or Hooligan?... or summat else?
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There I was feeling really pleased with my haul,'had to bring them home as someone else was helping themselves (http://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt149/macmac-photo/09_28_2.jpg)
still a million times better than last year
Fine crop of butternuts you've got there... better shape form than mine too :jealous: My solitary Waltham is the classic shape, the Harriers are all over the place.....
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mine are hooligan, freebies from somewhere, very impressed, just gotta taste them now ;D
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:blushes:.... I was expecting counter-postings of other folks monster crops.....
I have harvested most of mine now (except Triamble which are still ripening on the vine as they take a bit more to mature) and took a piccy. Will download it from the camera tonight and post it.
On a related thread - I grew Marshalls squashkin this year - 2 plant and have got 11 fruits, the heaviest being about 3lb. This is muh better than I thought - I only realised how well they had done when the vines had died back.
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:blushes:.... I was expecting counter-postings of other folks monster crops.....
I have harvested most of mine now (except Triamble which are still ripening on the vine as they take a bit more to mature) and took a piccy. Will download it from the camera tonight and post it.
On a related thread - I grew Marshalls squashkin this year - 2 plant and have got 11 fruits, the heaviest being about 3lb. This is muh better than I thought - I only realised how well they had done when the vines had died back.
Other folks experience of Squashkin is very variable.... apparently Marshalls have dropped it from their catalogue this year.... they might well have come up with something that grows well under specific conditions and if you don't have them then it won't.... in my experience very like Waltham butternut....
chrisc
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Harvested the squash today, an ok haul, I'll take a pic tomorrow. The ground is so dry underneath though! I've ordered my manure early this year, so I can get it on the beds before the rains predicted for next week.
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Piccy of my harvest this year. Interesting what you said re butternuts Chriscross - mine did appallingly but Squashkin okay.
A Buttercup and 4 Triambles not quite ready (2 just about ok, 2 still a bit greenish rather than steel blue), I am hoping they beat the frosts as Jeannine was right these are delish.
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I am so envious! :o My crop was zilch this year!
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I am so envious! :o My crop was zilch this year!
I think that squash are a tad marginal in this country in some ways.... next year my plan is to start a batch early, setup big beds of fresh horse manure (for the warmth) with weedmulch covering and get the plants on them for the start of may under cloches or mini tunnels in some ways its more about the rain as much as the cold at that time of year.... get the cloches off by the end of May latest unless weather hopeless, that should give me plants growing away in early June rather than sulkin into July in the case of the butternuts.... I plan on fewer plants of more varieties....
chrisc