Anyone else still eating last years squashes?

[sweet-pea]

I started eating my last butternut squash from last years crop last night.  Amazed as to how long it has kept for, it was just starting to go a bit soft at the top but otherwise still in perfect condition. 

Has anyone else still got squashes left to eat from last year?

SP x

[sweet-pea]

[flowerlady]

I still have one Jaspee de Vendee to cut, it's a little on the soft side but will roast nicely.  ooo more seeds to offer perhaps !!

[Palustris]

From the Freezer, yes plus French beans, broad beans, courgettes and fruit of all sorts.

[sweet-pea]

Yes, I still have french beans tomatoes and courgettes in the freezer too, desperately trying to work my way through them now before this years crop is ready! 

[Doris_Pinks]

Used up my last butternut last week  :'( :'(
Have one spaghetti squash left, and that is only because we really are not that keen on them! :)

[manicscousers]

no squash,  :( but still got a 2lb bag of frozen raspberries,as well as leeks, runners, apple, pears, plums and gooseberries, oh, and 2 sweetcorn left  ;D

[saddad]

Still got a couple of Crown Prince to use...
;D

[flossie]

We have a huge musquade de provence sitting on top of the fridge waiting until I have the energy to try and cut into it...

[Jeannine]

Yes, I am still eating mine,I have about 8 Sugar Loaf Delicata left,this is mt favourite,and always outlasts all the others, they are very sweet but with no damage at all XX Jeannine

[carolinej]

Due to my bumper first crop last year, I finished eating mine by about christmas!! Needless to say, I am going to grow loads more this year, as I dont like shop bought ones since tasting home grown ones.

cj :)

[Jeannine]

This is what I have left now after  dinner

[carolinej]

Oh wow! What ones are they Jeannine?

cj :)

[Jeannine]

They are Sugar Loaf Delicata, when picked and first cured they are a creamy white colour with geen stripes, they turn this colour over a long time in storage these have been 9 months off the vine. After they cure wash the skins in a very mild bleach water, and the same afer each two months or so,this is to kill any mildew spores that may have been on the plants.

I think I sent you some of these.

Oh  and Caroline I got 3 Batman pumpkins to germinate,so I will pot one on a ndsend it to you.

XX Jeannine

[carolinej]

I got 3 Batman pumpkins to germinate,so I will pot one on a ndsend it to you

Well done! I just dont know what I did wrong with them. Thank you, you are an angel. I am really looking forward to seeing the end product. Do you think they will be as black on top as the picture showed?

I think I sent you some of these.

I will check tomorrow if they are still alive. I have lost loads of plants over the lottie. I dont understand it, as some are looking really green and healthy, and some have shrivelled up. They are spread over 2 lotties, so there doesnt seem to be a common theme of where they are planted.

Am I cross.....OF COURSE I AM NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:(

I think I will keep the batman one you send me at home in the garden where I can keep an eye on it.

I know I have one really healthy 'Jack be Little' and just one of my atlantic giants is doing well.

cj :)

[real food]

I have four Festival left in perfect condition. they have been stored in the cool back bedroom, no sun. I may keep one to just see how much longer it will store. My First Taste and Red Kuri, I had to eat them months ago, as they were starting to go soft.
I must try Sugar Loaf next year, and see how it does in Glasgow.

[Mrs Ava]

5 crown prince still waiting to be used.

[mc55]

I've got 6 and a half butternuts left ... going soft rapidly though. 

[carolinej]

I've got 6 and a half butternuts left

Half? ???

cj :)

[Tulipa]

I've still got 3 Winter Festival in the garage, they have been brilliant so I am growing them again this year along with Buttercup. :)

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

Jeannine - what's the recipe for your bleach wash?