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  • From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] off topic--pumpkins squash
  • Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:32:57 -0700 (PDT)

I'll second a vote for Sweet Meat squash and add one for butternut,
buttercup, Jarrahdale, Blue Hubbard, Glaleaux de Eysinnes (pardon my
spelling, don't have a catalogue handy!), Queensland Blue, etc..

But my absolute favourite is Potimarron (The Cottage Gardener and Seed Savers
Exchange usually carry it). It translates from French as 'Chestnut pumpkin'
and it has to most amazing flavour! It isn't a huge squash for me and is
usually a 6" red-orange hubbard shape. Potimarron bakes and stores very well.

I also tried planting direct and transplanting a number of different kinds of
squash, but with totally different results. My transplants had smaller
leaves to start with, but they had the first flowers and produced way more
squash that actually ripened in our short season. But I only start mine
inside 3-4 weeks before set out because they hate to have their roots
disturbed which could explain why yours may have been stunted.

Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Fri, 4/9/10, Lon J. Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com> wrote:

> From: Lon J. Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] off topic--pumpkins squash
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Received: Friday, April 9, 2010, 6:09 PM
> At this moment I still have Sweet
> Meat squashes in storage.  They make the finest pudding
> (think pie with no crust) of anything I've used.  I've
> set started plants out and planted seed at the same time,
> and at the end of the season the seeded plants had
> outperformed the started plants, and all the squashes from
> each group were mature simultaneously.
> I save my own seed of Sweet Meat.
> -Lon Rombough
> Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
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>
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Michael Dossett wrote:
>
> It's been interesting to see what people's opinions are on
> this.  The small sugar pumpkins tend to be much better
> than the jack-o-lantern types when it comes to pie, but I
> think even they are beat by other squashes.  I'm a
> little surprised to hear so many saying butternut as I've
> never been a huge fan of the butternut flavor in my pumpkin
> pies (though the texture is fantastic and I have had some
> butternuts that were awfully good).  I would second
> blue hubbard as being excellent, but it tends to need a long
> season.  My absolute favorite for pies would have to be
> sweet meat, hands down.  Unfortunately it is sometimes
> harder to find seeds for them as a lot of the major catalogs
> don't seem to have it.  Territorial seeds carries it,
> as well as "sugar hubbard" a sweet meat x blue hubbard
> hybrid.
>
> http://www.territorialseed.com/product/7517/s
>
> I started my sweet meat seeds indoors last weekend :-)
>
>
> Michael
>
>
> Michael Dossett
> Corvallis, Oregon
> www.Mdossettphoto.com
> phainopepla@yahoo.com
>
>
> --- On Thu, 4/8/10, Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
> > Subject: [NAFEX] off topic--pumpkins squash
> > To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:03 PM
> > What do you recommend for pumpkin pie
> > and bakery?  Pumpkins or squash?
> > What varieties.  I live in zone 2 so they have to be
> > short season. 
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