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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 21:39:54 -0500
The squash is fine to use at this point. I am thinking
maybe it is a little cool, or drying out though it is in our basement and we
have not run the woodstove down there this year, to keep them from getting to
hot or dry.
The beets were in milk crates, covered with plastic, in the
cooler. Not in sand. And they have a lot of mold/slime on the tops
end. I have stored them in Buckhorn totes before and don't remember having
this problem. How long of tops do folks leave on beets for storage?
The tops, and inch or two long, are most black slime with a few nice pink inner
"leaves". On those with shorter stems, they have decayed down into
the beet.
have to get better at the storage thing - we have a market for
root crops in the winter.
Beth Spaugh
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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 8:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash
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
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To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 20:40:47 -0500
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--- 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.
Beth Spaugh
Rehoboth Homestead, Peru,
NY
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[Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash,
Beth Spaugh, 02/07/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash,
MAsteveINE, 02/07/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash, Etienne Goyer, 02/07/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash, Aaron Brower, 02/08/2011
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash,
clearviewfarm, 02/07/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash, Beth Spaugh, 02/07/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 02/08/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash, Road's End Farm, 02/08/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash, clearviewfarm, 02/08/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] wrinkling butternut squash,
MAsteveINE, 02/07/2011
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