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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2013 22:19:23 GMT -5
This may sound like heresy, but summer squash all taste pretty much the same to me. I like the taste, (especially sauteed with onions, garlic, a little butter and plenty of salt and black pepper), but it doesn't seem to vary much with color or shape. And I find patty pans to be an awkward shape for processing in the kitchen. Straight squash are simply easier to work with. That being the case, this year I decided to just plant a random, mixed up row of straight squash, let them cross willy-nilly, and save from the best performers, in the hopes that I can eventually get a line that can stand up to the huge number of cucumber beetles, stink bugs, and squash bugs that plague us here. I know the row included Cocozelle, Tender Grey, Eastern Delight, a dark green zuke whose name I've forgotten, and a yellow straightneck/zuke cross I saved from last year.
With my winter squash I'm still planning to maintain the individual varieties (at least for now). I'm planning to put in Sunshine F6, Sweet Meat, Guatemalan Blue, Jersey Golden Acorn, butternut that my wife's grandfather saved for many years, and a separate line of butternut from a friend in New York. I may yet talk myself into a couple more. I've got at least a dozen others that friends and collaborators have sent, but I'm trying not to grow TOO much more than we can actually eat...
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Post by whistech on Apr 27, 2013 19:37:51 GMT -5
For squash, I am trying to grow tatume this year so it can run along the fence. I have visions of 20 feet long squash vines loaded with squash. I only had room to plant 2 hills of tatume. I am also trying to grow a hybrid yellow zucchini this year that was advertised to have mature squash in 35 days. The plants themselves are really puny looking but I did notice today that there are 2 yellow zucchini about 1/2 inch long on them. There are no male flowers so I guess they will shrivel up and die. I will be going to early yellow crookneck in the fall. For cucumbers I am trying to grow h-19 Little Leaf and Calypso for pickles and about 4 Armenian plants for fresh eating.
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