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   How to ripen Butternut "Argonaut" squash   
   13 Nov 22 08:55:59   
   
   From: eastman5063@gmail.com   
      
   I grew a 24 pound Argonaut squash this season. Because of the failing summer   
   warmth I had to pull it when it was just beginning to turn orange. It's been   
   washed, bleach-wiped, and sitting in a sunny south window since October 26 and   
   is very hard and    
   fully orange. How much longer might this have to age to reach max sweetness? I   
   tried this because we're trying to find a replacement for Delicata and these   
   were pushed as being much sweeter and having better flavor than typical   
   butternut (Waltham?) Will    
   cube, bag, and freeze for soup and don't want to cut it open too early.   
      
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