Alas, not likely.If you pick them now, will they keep all winter?
I have here on the table two large Lakota squash from LAST year. They are still good enough to eat. I am going to plant seeds from those squash next week, and then more acorn, butternut, and sugar pumpkins in the couple of weeks after that.
Ironically, perhaps, right now is the time when seeding and transplanting vegetables yields the most for your effort. Turnips, beets, carrots and the like planted about now will be maturing up around the onset of much cooler weather and hold in the garden for months. Cabbage and broccoli seeded now will endure the first frosts as seedlings and then mature in the early winter ... then hold bug-free in the garden for a long time. Etc.
I think it was James that said he plants some squashes late so that he has
them ripening in fall. They benefit from cool fall weather, but if they are
ripe, they are ripe and won't hold till fall.
When they are really young and green, they are good to eat like summer
squash, also.
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