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Hard to see as they are all plonked on the dining table, but there is a turks turban, crown prince,  queensland blue, a pumpkin, couple of melons, loads of courgettes and marrow and some whose name washed clean off the label so I have no idea!   ???

oh....are they like ornamental ones? sorry know nothing about them! butt hey do look pretty on the table :)

nope, all edible!  ;D

Looks like a couple of spotted swan gourds there, are you sure they're edible?

Silly question I know, but what do you do with all them Emma?  Have you recipes to do lots with them all.  I would be stumped doing someat with 1 of them.   ;D ;D ;D

Wellllllllll MT, I thought they were ornamental, but an American chappolla told me they were edible.  To be honest, those won't be eaten as I have promised them to the urchins to decorate.

The rest Carol, soups, stews, roasted, mashed with spuds and carrots, curries, pasties, chutney, anything really.  I find these smaller squashes have denser flesh, better for eating, where as the big beasties are watery and to be honest, IMO, only good for carving at Halloween.

I've always fancied growing them but couldn't really warrant the space but if you say they're edible that's good enough for me

The oval, pale one in the middle looks a bit like my spaghetti squash (very prolific, first year grown) - what a nice display that is  :)

That is a white volunteer courgette Jen, I grew spag squash last year, but we weren't crazy on it so didn't bother this.  It should have been a lot smaller, it was the one that got away!

Emma Wow what a great selection.
Lorna.

do they all taste different from one another emma, and which is your favourite

Squash soup for tea..................




.................again....... ;)

I still have pumpkin soup in the freezer from last year ...  :-\

Is that a turk's turban I see there?

It is MV.

Love the ones with the handles for carrying them home.

Can't say we have a fave Shirlton.  To be honest, the family aren't that keen on squash.  They don't mind curried pumpkin soup, pumpkin bread or spicy pumpkin pasties, but that is about their limit.  They don't know that I sneak it in with mash and curries also.  ::)  Some of the smaller squash have a denser, sweeter flesh, great for baking - it normally holds its shape well, whereas a lot of the larger ones have a high moisture content, so the flesh turns to paste when cooked, but great for mashing!  I also find a lot of the big squash have no real flavour, like marrow really, a little sweet, but quite watery.

Those swan guords have proven popular Marymary.  I had Russian Doll guords and snake guords, but lost both in the drought during the summer.  Better luck next year!  ;D

Squashes really are an amazing group of plants - what else comes in quite such a vast number of shapes & sizes - I'd love to have the space to grow loads of different kinds.  EJ do you think these varieties all grow wild somewhere or have they been bred?

Our very first harvest of weird and wonderful squashes etc. If the photo appears, very many thanks to Roy for his help, fingers crossed ;) ;)

And here's some more!!! And look, first lot  ;Dof sweet potatoes