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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Squash Blossoms
  • Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:54:11 -0400

Pick them before the cucumber beetles get in them, just before they open, or as the tops are just opening. I read somewhere 1 a.m. is good, but I go through several times a day if I get the chance and pick ones that are ready. You can pick the females and sell with the small fruit attached, but they tend to fall off. Males have a nice stem, and you don’t give up a fruit.

 

They keep will in a ziplock or clamshell with a paper towel in the bottom, in the frig. They need to stay cold, but will last maybe 3 days that way.

 

Price – I will be interested to hear from others. I have done 10 for $5 (not sold many) and for restaurants charged a quarter each. These were nice big blossoms, from zucchini or some winter squash that have big blossoms, not from yellow summer squash which tend to be small. And Costato Romanesco makes huge blossoms.

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY

Farm Fresh Food Club CSA - http://rhomestead.com

Garden fresh vegetables, organically grown, and pastured chicken, duck, and geese

 

"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry

 

"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of jay sleichter
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:45 AM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Market-farming] Squash Blossoms

 

I have had some people ask for these. I have seen them on food shows, but I don't know much more. I will try some this week and see what they taste like.  My questions are, when do you pick them, only male blossoms or both, how do you store them post harvest, how do you store them at market and what do you charge?  My parthenocopic squash in my hoop house don't need the male blossoms and they could be another item I could sell.  I am already picking zucchini.

Thanks,

Jay from Kansas

 




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