From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Home Owner wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
     140 day season squash!  wow, i wouldn't even plant something   
   with that long of a season here - too far north.   
      
     in looking around it says it can keep for 8 months or longer   
   so i'd say you could leave it alone for some time if you want   
   to.  why process it for storage when it will store itself?  :)   
      
     i have no storage space that works for squash here for long   
   so by the time winter has set in and it is cold enough outside   
   to freeze inside the garage i have to bring the squash inside   
   and then within a few weeks i'll start processing the ones   
   that won't do well in storage and while i'm at it i often get   
   the rest of them done too.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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