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  • From: "loneroc" <loneroc@countryspeed.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] off topic--pumpkins squash
  • Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:03:00 -0500

Butternut squash are essentially immune to the squash borer. Blue Hubbard and Buttercup and all non-moschata squash are wiped out without veeeeery careful monitoring (a little Sevin at the base of the vine helps). For a storage squash I only grow butternut types. Summer squash will usually produce before the vines get the borer.

Steve Herje Lone Rock, WI


----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa Kacalanos" <mijwiz@yahoo.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] off topic--pumpkins squash


My favorite is buttercup. Last year, my buttercup did much better than my butternut, and they stored fine until March. They were starchy like a potato when I first picked them, but very sweet after storage. And they were completely smooth and dense, and free of stringiness. I didn't bother to bake them into pies, since they were a dessert as-is.

But I'm not really qualified to advise you from down here in zone 5. I'm not trying to get rid of you, but I wonder if someplace like the Far North Forum would give you better responses:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/farnorth/

Melissa

--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] off topic--pumpkins squash
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 10:43 PM
Butternut squash. Reliable, and makes
some of the best pie in my
opinion. Usually most productive in our coolish, shorter
summers.
Although not as short as yours I imagine.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
wrote:
> 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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