Serpent Squash

[saddad]

Well we have a couple... but no idea what to do with them...

[saddad]

[gray1720]

Oh, I say, that's a long one!

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[saddad]

Titter ye not!

[galina]

Store it for a bit for the flavour to intensify, then eat like butternut.   

[saddad]

It's in the garage, maturing as we speak!

[gwynleg]

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.

[galina]

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?    

[saddad]

Definitely white flowered... but worth growing just for the S#D factor!

[Digeroo]

Suggest you grow Tromba d'Albenga instead next year.   
Snake gourds are interesting, but not good to eat.