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Subject: Re: [Homestead] summer squash
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> Around here there is so much summer squash this year nobody can even give 
> it 
> away. 

Summer squash is the answer to world hunger.



There's another strategy altogether in dealing with summer squash.  Only 
plant one plant of each type.  We grow four types, zucchini, yellow crook 
neck, patty pan, and some Italian squash that looks like club.  The first 
three are bush types and the last will cover an acre with one plant if you 
let it.

When the squashes start to bloom, plant another plant of each type.  As the 
squashes from the first planting set, harvest them very small.  When the 
second planting begins to bloom, dig in the first planting and plant a third. 
Keep repeating this process the whole season.  The plants stay young, 
compact, disease and insect free, and you only have a couple of weeks of 
squash to deal with at a time.

In a climate like this the first breath of frost will kill summer squash 
vines.  But if you have a seedbed or emerging plants that you have covered 
against the first frost, many times it is three to five weeks or longer to 
the next frost and so there's an end of summer harvest as well.

Al alternative to digging in the successive beds is to let the unused and 
unwanted squash mature until they are like winter squash.  They make 
excellent animal feed in the winter.  We feed them to cows, goats, chickens, 
and rabbits.

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