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The Show => Pumpkin 'tastic => Topic started by: Mrs Ava on October 03, 2005, 18:28:42

Title: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: Mrs Ava on October 03, 2005, 18:28:42

Can anyone put a name to these?  Unfortunately the labels have miraculously vanished!

(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a364/Mrsava/mystery_squash2.jpg)

(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a364/Mrsava/mystery_squash1.jpg)

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: undercarriage plan on October 03, 2005, 18:46:35

Hey EJ, no idea about 1st, not very certain about 2nd!! But 2nd was does resemble the swan gourds I grew, but quite immature ones? Could they both be types of gourds? Best guess anyway!! Good luck. Lottie

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: undercarriage plan on October 03, 2005, 20:46:48

 ;D

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: Jill on October 04, 2005, 00:26:11

Hi EJ.  Absolutely no idea really, except in 1st photo, could it be an immature harlequin and in 2nd photo if not swan gourds as suggested by Lottie then possibly immature trombolinos.  Just guessing really.

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: Mrs Ava on October 04, 2005, 12:05:31

Ah, Jill, I wondered about trombolinos, but then I have harvested what I thought were trombolinos and they were different!  Must must must sort my labeling out!

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: Jill on October 04, 2005, 12:12:25

Know the labelling prob only too well, EJ :(.  My carefully labelled butternuts magically prduced nothing but pumpkins this year.  No idea what sort though - just big and orange.

Here's a piccie of my trombolinos last year, if it's any help.

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: Mrs Ava on October 04, 2005, 12:16:16

hmmm, you know, that could well be them!  So what are the monster long green ones I picked then??  Hey ho, tis all part of the great adventure known to us as Extreme Allotmenteering!  ;D

Thanks for the pic Jill - you is a star!

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: Doris_Pinks on October 04, 2005, 13:24:58

EJ I think the monster long green ones are nice long?  I know I planted some and mine seem to be going paler, but of course somthing has nicked the label!!

http://www.organiccatalog.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_22_43_114&products_id=1314

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: Debs on October 04, 2005, 21:50:05

Gawd Jill,

Have you got a trombolina dish to put those babies in?? ;D

Debs

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: Jill on October 05, 2005, 13:14:58

Lol, Debs.  Shouldn't that be Gourd rather than Gawd? ;D

Well those were some of last year's harvest, seeds from which produced EJ's babies.  The flesh went into gallons of squash and lentil soup which we'd finished by February.  About to make another vat full with this year's squash crop.

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: Mrs Ava on October 05, 2005, 22:57:35

Don't ask, but whenever I see the word trombolina, I always start singing............

'Trombolina trombolina, tiny little thing....trombolina dance, trombolina sing.......oh trombolina, what's the difference if you're very small, in my heart that's full of love your 9 feet tall' 

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: Doris_Pinks on October 06, 2005, 09:24:44

Now who's daft!  ;D  ;D  ;D    (I think the same too!)

Title: Re: Couple of mysteries....
Post by: the_snail on October 21, 2005, 13:16:33

Here is the answer to your question about what are they, the big long ones.

http://www.alanromans.com/product.asp?numRecordPosition=1&P_ID=583&strPageHistory=cat&strKeywords=&SearchFor=&PT_ID=222

I think that is right.

The_Snail