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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Rhubarb Thrasher on October 03, 2009, 10:49:25

Title: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on October 03, 2009, 10:49:25
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p94/rhubarbthrasher/squash1vertl.jpg)

(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p94/rhubarbthrasher/squash1horizal.jpg)

(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p94/rhubarbthrasher/squash2l.jpg)

forgot one!

(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p94/rhubarbthrasher/squashandbeansl.jpg)

Missing Presumed Eaten are 1 big Franchi "Tondo Americana", 1 sugar Pie, 1 red kuri, 1 sweet dumpling and 11 Little Gems  ;D In the end I made it up to exactly 100 little gems  8)























Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: flowerofshona2007 on October 03, 2009, 11:13:47
Wow thats a good haul !!
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: GrannieAnnie on October 03, 2009, 11:56:36
Thrasher, quite an artsy display you have. You should be feeling great satisfaction just looking at them.
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on October 03, 2009, 12:31:18
I was thinking of entering them in "The view from the door" competition......no-one said you had to be looking out  :D

the arty arrangement is just to make a path through  ;D
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Borlotti on October 03, 2009, 12:46:48
Love the colours in the first picture, would make a good design for table cloth, table mats or a jigsaw puzzle.  Think you are too late for the back door competition but I would haved voted for the originallity and the variety of colours.
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: star on October 03, 2009, 13:07:51
What a lovely variety you have there. They look great.........great harvest :D
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: shirlton on October 03, 2009, 15:26:55
I'm going to grow more squash next year cos we luv em
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: chriscross1966 on October 04, 2009, 00:39:14
Hmm... I'd like to grow some Little Gem for sure... they climb so no space required if I stick a mesh for them on my northern boundary..... hmmm... will add them to the desired list when I send my swaplist out....

Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on October 04, 2009, 08:05:01
Quote from: Borlotti on October 03, 2009, 12:46:48
Love the colours in the first picture, would make a good design for table cloth, table mats or a jigsaw puzzle.  Think you are too late for the back door competition but I would haved voted for the originallity and the variety of colours.

that's inspired Borlotti - i'll take pictures of them for my Christmas cards! Why didn't I think of that? Used to do that kind of thing before digital cameras came in. Took weeks of work then too .......
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Biscombe on October 04, 2009, 08:06:09
Great haul! well done you!
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Jeannine on October 04, 2009, 08:15:20
What a smashing lot, well done Roo XX Jeannine
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on October 04, 2009, 09:00:10
some of the seeds were from you, Jeannine, so thanks! Mind you, the big orange pumpkins were supposed to be "Long Island Cheese"  ;D oh, also the white beans are Tarbais, also from you.......
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Jeannine on October 04, 2009, 09:19:04
Hi again Roo, the only one in the picture that even looks a little like a Long Island cheese is the top centre one, they are very flat and round with slight ribs but not deep orange more like a burnt sienna colour. about 6 inches high and twice as wide.. If it is a cheese,, please don't eat it they are awful,coarse , lacking flavour and sugar  so  purely decorative, make good door stops though.

XX Jeannine
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on October 04, 2009, 09:27:42
the top centre one should be a very unwarty Galeux d'Eysines, again seed from you.

could you have a look at the orange ones in the second picture (not the red kuri) and say if they're sugar pies? I didn't put labels out when I planted them......
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: 1066 on October 05, 2009, 07:37:43
lookin good RT ! And there was I thinking I had done well with my 8 little gems  ::)  :P
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: saddad on October 05, 2009, 07:41:12
I'm impressed... what are the small blue/black ones?  :-\
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: 1066 on October 05, 2009, 07:49:35
Saddad - they are the gem squash  :)
Well having said that - that's what mine look like / what it said on the packet  ::)
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on October 05, 2009, 08:56:55
yes they're little gem from Simpsons........did I mention I got 100  ;D
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: 1066 on October 05, 2009, 09:27:15
Quote from: Rhubarb Thrasher on October 05, 2009, 08:56:55
yes they're little gem from Simpsons........did I mention I got 100  ;D

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Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Jeannine on October 13, 2009, 00:39:55
Roo, I think so but  actually the lowest one in the top picture looks about right, they are the best for pumpkin pie !! XX Jeannine
Title: Re: MySquash Haul (Mostly)
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on October 13, 2009, 08:18:55
thanks Jeannine, - yesterday was the traditional day for pumpkin pie I think oh that's Canada i see