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Picking squash

REDDOGTWO

REDDOGTWO

Unemployed Veg. Peddler
Borrowed the neighbors snow bucket for his bobcat. It is about eight feet wide, four feet high and three feed deep. This is the first load of squash and a few pumpkins that I picked with it. Filled it with just the buttercup and similar sized squash the other day and it took a hour and a half of steady picking to fill it up.
 

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You should park it at the farmers market just like that rather than setting up a table. :thumb:
 
Little like pigs in a blanket, or bigger like a calzone? 'Seasoned' (sweet) like pumpkin pie?
 
Seasoned sweet like pumpkin pie. My mother used to make them about three by five inches in size. She just folded the outside over a little bit so that you could see the pumpkin in the middle.

Darn, now I will have to find a recipe and make a batch when it slows down.
 
That's how I've been picking my squash this year too. It's been a phenomenal crop. I've still got more butternut and acorn squash to pick. Should have enough to keep everybody fed all winter. We've been freezing, canning, dehydrating for weeks. The rest of the fall garden is looking good too. This has been the best gardening year I've had for a long, long time.
 
I had stuffed acorn squash for dinner last night - it was pretty tasty.
anyone with way too much can feel free to mail me a box full of acorn or butternut. :biggrin:
 
I tried growing squash and melons, both had lots of flowers, but nothing else. I have had a couple of marrows - the slugs had a field day with everything else. Between the weather, the butterflies and the slugs it was a total waste of time.
 
We had a great crop of summer squash this year but our winter squash, pumpkins, watermelons and summer melons all were a bust. I think much of our problems were related to rain (lack of) when needed.
 
Just filled the bucket the other day with 497 Buttercup squash, guessing the weight was in the range of 1400 to 1500#.
 
This is the final load of Buttercup squash, 431 of them picked in the dark this evening. There are also a few Ambercup squash that wondered over into the Buttercup area. The Ambercup is tastes like a Buttercup, maybe a little sweeter. Tomorrow, I will work on the rest of the Ambercup and the cup less Buttercup, Acorn, Carnival, Butternut and anything else that I can find. The Hubbard s were picked and sold during Pow Wow weekend except for maybe an occasional one that was lost in the weeds.

We have a freeze coming this weekend with a low of 26 degrees and the squash are the last item above ground left in the garden, so it will be done despite the predicted rain tomorrow.
 

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This is what over 3000# of Buttercup squash looks like. What I have sold and have in the trailer totals over 1000#, for a total production of 4000# of Buttercup squash. Not bad for three rows totaling 1000 feet.
 

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I hate to say this Red Dog, but that is scary. Good job though but it's a lot more than I'd want or need. I've got friends now who run and hide when they see me approaching with bags full of squash. :biggrin: It's either a feast or a famine. There's no middle ground.
 
EastTexFrank said:
I hate to say this Red Dog, but that is scary. Good job though but it's a lot more than I'd want or need. I've got friends now who run and hide when they see me approaching with bags full of squash. :biggrin: It's either a feast or a famine. There's no middle ground.
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Yes it is scary, we ended up picking on Tuesday without the rain, made it much more comfortable and now there is about 7000# of various kinds of squash in the shed. With selling ending at the end of the month, I must move over 200# per day. Did not sell the first three days of the week and the last two days I averaged a little under 75#.

It looks like I might have a little problem at the end of the month as each day gets a little slower than the day before. Might have to hit up the local grocery stores the first of next month and check out their inventory and see if they need some. It will be giving it away but better than feeding it to the deer.
 
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