9 October 2006
Bringing it all back home.
Yesterday I decided that it was time to bring home the bulk of the squashes. Can someone please remind me next year that this is a very prickly task, and that it might be worth actually wearing the gloves I’ve taken down the plot while I do it? I don’t want to end up with any more injuries, now do I?
I’ve left a few still on plants as the weather feels warm-ish and the plants are still looking OK, so I thought I’d give them a chance to grow at least a wee bit bigger. Nonetheless, we brought home a fair few.
Yesterday evening we tried one of the Golden Apple squashes. According to the blurb, they should be orange, but ours are green. Dark green. So I was a bit concerned that they would not make good eating. Still, undeterred, I chopped one in half, brushed it with a little oil and baked it in the oven. It turned out to be delicious.
Which is just as well because we’ve got about fifty of them.
Filed under: Harvest — Clare @ 6:20 pm
LOL! That picture of Owen keeps making me hum the “Staying Alive” tune – there’s something of the natty strut about him there
And I hope the green squash hasn’t killed you… it hasn’t, has it?
(10.10.06 @ 9:34 am)
Tightens trousers… “Whether you’re a pumpkin or whether you’re a bumpkin, you’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive…”
The green Golden Apple squash were delicious
(10.10.06 @ 10:39 am)
I do like your trousers like that!
(10.10.06 @ 12:37 pm)
Falsetto: “Steady on!”
(10.10.06 @ 1:20 pm)
Are you two in the same house leaving comments for each other? If so, stop it! The next step will be walkie-talkie watches so you can talk to each other on the settee: http://www.iwantoneofthose.com.....Y45K0Up7Ng**
(10.10.06 @ 3:09 pm)
I planted some Futsu pumpkins. In the brochure they were a lovely smooth golden brown colour but on the plant they were green and knobbly. I thought – what’s the deal? But I did some Google research and it turns out that they only turn brown in storage. So maybe yours will do the same?
(10.10.06 @ 6:32 pm)
Now then Disco Burro, with your hairy ginger chest wig and medallion, surely you realise that if I were in the same room as Owen as he does that trouser thing I certainly wouldn’t be writing comments about it here!!
mtp – so good to see you’re back in the blogosphere! I did wonder if my squash might change colour as they’re stored – but I’m not sure how long we’ll end up storing them as they’re so nice! Loved your harvest pic.
(10.10.06 @ 11:03 pm)