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( Had tea with my neighbor, yesterday. )
I just made eight trips to the compost with the delicata squash we grew last summer. I thought I recalled that we harvested around 60, but it must have been more because even if I only took five in each trip that would be 40, and there are 17 left, and I know I gave away quite a few and I think it was a couple of months there that we ate two squash every week. Moral: we won't plant seven delicata squash vines again.
Of course we probably won't ever have to plant them again at all, because they'll be growing feral all over the property after we spread this compost,. and probably on the neighbors' properties as well because the racoons like them. Our first one grew feral from compost we'd bought.
And why have I saved the last 17 and didn't just take them to the compost with the rest? Well, they're not rotten yet, and that first delicata we ever had we didn't even start to eat until March, so they're probably still edible. Also, I postholed up to my knees in the snow numerous times during that eight trips out there and my knees are not too damned happy with me at the moment. It's lovely outside, 50 degrees or so, but that makes the snow treacherous.
I just made eight trips to the compost with the delicata squash we grew last summer. I thought I recalled that we harvested around 60, but it must have been more because even if I only took five in each trip that would be 40, and there are 17 left, and I know I gave away quite a few and I think it was a couple of months there that we ate two squash every week. Moral: we won't plant seven delicata squash vines again.
Of course we probably won't ever have to plant them again at all, because they'll be growing feral all over the property after we spread this compost,. and probably on the neighbors' properties as well because the racoons like them. Our first one grew feral from compost we'd bought.
And why have I saved the last 17 and didn't just take them to the compost with the rest? Well, they're not rotten yet, and that first delicata we ever had we didn't even start to eat until March, so they're probably still edible. Also, I postholed up to my knees in the snow numerous times during that eight trips out there and my knees are not too damned happy with me at the moment. It's lovely outside, 50 degrees or so, but that makes the snow treacherous.