From: pintiha@jhmi.edu   
      
   On Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 9:00:23 AM UTC-4, songbird wrote:   
   > Frank wrote:    
   > > On 9/28/2020 4:23 AM, T wrote:    
   > >> Gorgeous!    
   > >    
   > > I liked them too.   
   > thanks!    
   >    
   > i managed to get a bucket of the small squash gone    
   > through yesterday, cleaned and baked.    
   >    
   > some of them weren't even done yet and i discarded    
   > them after previous years experiments in baking or    
   > cooking with them i decided i just didn't like them    
   > enough and the worms will appreciate them more when    
   > i bury them in the gardens later today instead. :)    
   >    
   > the buttercup variety we tried this year i will    
   > give one more try next year. the taste and texture    
   > are a lot more like an acorn squash than the buttercup    
   > i was hoping for.    
   >    
   > the kabocha and pumpkin variegated cross seems to    
   > be doing well enough so we'll keep growing that.    
   >    
   > i haven't cooked up any of the hubbards yet, i hope    
   > they store and age well as i'm not sure when i'll get    
   > back to them to cook one up.    
   >    
   >    
   > songbird   
      
    I planted buttercups this year and didn't think they yielded anything.   
   Recently, I went out to the pumpkin patch and noticed 7 or 8 of them hiding   
   under the leaves of the pumpkin vines. The cantaloupes did well, but we didn't   
   get anything from the petit    
   gris melons. The vines were very petit and got buried under the vines and   
   leaves of the usual pumpkins.   
      
   We planted blue hubbards for a few years now; they tend to keep well for   
   several months if kept cool. We put the pumpkin harvest in out unheated garage   
   and if any are noticed spoiling, they go over the fence to the sheep, who   
   really enjoy a pumpkin treat    
   after a couple of months of hay.   
      
   Looks like a good harvest of the Dikenson pumpkins this year; those are the   
   commercial variety that get processed into the pumpkin pie filling you find at   
   the grocery store.    
      
   Paul   
      
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