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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Butternut Squash
  • Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:34:15 -0400

Bev; it may be different in the South, but here in the north, we wait until frost kills the vine to pick any winter squash. They seem to keep better that way. But then they generally aren't completely ripe (i.e. the skin becomes hard) until then. If you pick them now, will they keep all winter?

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: "Homestead List" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:59 AM
Subject: [Homestead] Butternut Squash


I'm growing Waltham Butternut Squash. I sowed the seed on March 5 and
transplanted it to the garden, in hills, on April 12. It is supposed to
be about 100 days. I'm never sure whether you count from seeding or
from transplanting on something like this, but either way, I have
ripening squashes on the vine. I was going to pick them until someone
told me that I should wait until right before frost, that they need the
cold, like sweet potatoes. So now I am confused. I have lots of ripe
looking squashes out there, should I leave them alone or pick them and
store them inside?
Conflicted, but leaning towards filling up a couple of laundry baskets,
I am.
My acorn squash got a late start and is just now blooming. I'm hoping
that they will ripen before October...they should, but it has been a
strange year.

Is anyone growing Hubbards or other winter squashes?

B

--
"Never expect magic from no where" Baringo (Kenyan) working motto
http://erthnsky.blogspot.com/
EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia, USA
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