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  • From: Sheila Payne <srp75 AT msn.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Amish Pie Squash
  • Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 20:10:55 -0700

My favorite, for pies or just eating the baked meat right out of the shell, is Amish Pie squash (Cucurbita maxima).  I got the seeds from Seed Savers Exchange.  They are larger than a bon-bon or a butternut and they are HEAVY.  I tell my customers buy one, bake once, divide up into freezer bags and have squash all winter.

One customer commented on how difficult it would be to cut them in half for baking.  I jokingly told her to just drop it and then bake the pieces.  Later on when I went to try and cut one in half, I gave it a good stab with the butcher knife and then the tendonitis in my elbow complained and I thought, oh what the heck, took it outside and dropped it on the deck.  It broke perfectly in half and the line was right along the butcher knife stab line.  Did I just get lucky or is a stab and drop technique well known out there and I've just not been paying attention?

Sheila...Now a snow bird in Central Texas for a few months.  Departed from Colorado just before the big snow hit. I visited a market farm here the other day. They have lovely late-summer-planted tomato plants. Some small varieties are just turning color while the Cherokee Purple is still green but nice and big.  Hard to imagine fresh tomatoes at Thanksgiving, but maybe with a little luck and some row cover they will pull it off.



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