[NAFEX] off topic--pumpkins squash
Lon J. Rombough
lonrom at hevanet.com
Fri Apr 9 14:09:54 EDT 2010
At this moment I still have Sweet Meat squashes in storage. They make
the finest pudding (think pie with no crust) of anything I've used.
I've set started plants out and planted seed at the same time, and at
the end of the season the seeded plants had outperformed the started
plants, and all the squashes from each group were mature
simultaneously.
I save my own seed of Sweet Meat.
-Lon Rombough
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On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Michael Dossett wrote:
It's been interesting to see what people's opinions are on this. The
small sugar pumpkins tend to be much better than the jack-o-lantern
types when it comes to pie, but I think even they are beat by other
squashes. I'm a little surprised to hear so many saying butternut as
I've never been a huge fan of the butternut flavor in my pumpkin pies
(though the texture is fantastic and I have had some butternuts that
were awfully good). I would second blue hubbard as being excellent,
but it tends to need a long season. My absolute favorite for pies
would have to be sweet meat, hands down. Unfortunately it is sometimes
harder to find seeds for them as a lot of the major catalogs don't seem
to have it. Territorial seeds carries it, as well as "sugar hubbard" a
sweet meat x blue hubbard hybrid.
http://www.territorialseed.com/product/7517/s
I started my sweet meat seeds indoors last weekend :-)
Michael
Michael Dossett
Corvallis, Oregon
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--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko at wiktel.com> wrote:
> From: Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko at wiktel.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] off topic--pumpkins squash
> To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:03 PM
> What do you recommend for pumpkin pie
> and bakery? Pumpkins or squash?
> What varieties. I live in zone 2 so they have to be
> short season.
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