I harvested my Boston Squash on Saturday. After being away for a night I started getting jumpy about a possible frost happening and losing them before the chance to try them.
Day of harvest - 2nd of October 2010
The plants have done well, all but one have produced a large squash and tried to carry on and produce more but these monsters seem to have taken all the energy and although other fruits have set they have started to rot on the plant before getting to full size or ripening.
A car full; we had to put the back seats up to get them home and that is my hand on the largest squash - 7th of October 2010
Last night we tried the first one, I picked the second smallest up by its stalk which was a big mistake as it fell straight off and so was picked first for using up as it won’t store well. We had it roasted with rosemary and it was very nice!
There is still plenty left for tonight’s dinner. I am planning on making a creamy soup which will use some of the rest up and tomorrow we shall have to think of something else.
One meal down, a few more to go - 7th of October 2010
They are all far to big to weigh using any of the scales we have, 5kg being the heaviest, but this one weight over 8kg after being seeded and halved.
Definitely one to grow again next year.
Wow – they are big. I harvested my pumpkins yesterday and was well chuffed with the results. There’s a photo on our blog.
Rosie x
WOW! thats a lot of squash!!! Will make a note of them for next year, I didn’t plant any this year and really missed them 😦
oh my word!
Yummy! I adore pumpkin. Do you have some bathroom scales? That’s how I weigh mine x
No, no bathroom scales. We will just have to weigh them bit by bit as we eat them
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