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  • From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash
  • Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:59:08 -0800

Have you cut open one of the wrinkly squash, Beth?  What it looks like inside should tell you much.  Having not seen the fruits, I would guess that they are drying out, but not entirely sure.  Are you storing the beets in damp sand?


Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522

--- lists AT rhomestead.com wrote:

From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 20:40:47 -0500

I have not been a fan of butternut squash until this year, and grew it the first time.  Most of it has become a little "wrinkled".  It is still good for us to use, but we are part of an onliine ordering system for folks and I don't know whether it is OK to sell that way. I suspect long time butternut users will be OK with them, particularly if I put them on half price sale.  I can't easily ask since I don't see the folks, and most of them pickup over an hour from us. 
 
I realize I was too picky on onions this fall (the ones I set aside to discard because the necks seemed a little soft are still good), so wonder if I am being too picky on the squash also.
 
Boy, the beets are getting squishy and the squash is going.  I see why spring used to be the hungry time.
 
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