Last year I hung all our butternuts with wire through the stems and had no problems with them dropping.
This year, a different story. Out of the whole crop (700+ lbs) 3 have fallen leaving their stems hanging above in the cellar rafters. The only difference between the two years that I can think of is I picked these a tad earlier in the Fall due to travel plans. You folks tend to have a shorter growing season and might have more of a problem. It is also possible that these have cross-bred with something else that isn't quite so stable :-\
Were they still edible? Did they split on falling... some really hard squash are supposed to be easier to get in after being cracked by dropping! ;D
Quote from: saddad on January 03, 2011, 15:07:55
Were they still edible? Did they split on falling... some really hard squash are supposed to be easier to get in after being cracked by dropping! ;D
Funny! Yes they split when they fell. One good thing- I'd had an unusual for me forethought and removed the ones hanging over a stained glass window I'm building. You would have heard my howl clear from America if one had landed on that!
Oct 14 2007 in my shed. No problems.
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This year I stored them in my unheated conservatory and the frost got to them.
The best has been the attic.
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http://allaboutallotments.com/Butternutsquash.html