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jal_ut
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Squash Patch

A little squash patch can produce a lot of food!

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So how little is "little"? I'm guessing it is pretty big relative to us suburban gardeners. .... :D

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I just LOVE this photo. :-()

The abundance ... the mountains and big blue sky .. how happy you look ... all of it.

I also remember this is the year you ended up with those Pink Banana x Hubbard squash cross fruits and you said they turned out to be very tasty. 8)

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In my seed box tucked away I found some seed from that Pink Banana x Hubbard squash cross. So I planted some. Don't know if it will grow, it is a few years old.

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I love the picture too. I think my entire yard could probably fit inside of your squash patch. I grew one Tahitian squash and it tried to take over half my yard and the neighbor's too. I grew a gourd on a fence a couple of years ago and it was 50 ft long and kept trying to grow across the garden gate.

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Squash is fun to grow like everything else in my garden. I think high TN humidity is what kills my squash we get about 6 zucchini from each plant then plants get stem rot and die. I plant 1 squash seed about every 3 weeks all summer to keep squash coming as other plants die. I like yellow crook neck squash but did not buy seeds this year but I still might. When weather gets hotter & dryer I think plants do better. I planted spaghetti squash & acorn squash it rained non stop for a month I guess seeds rotted in the swamp. I planted again no rain for 3 weeks seeds never came up. Oh well we don't eat much squash anyway, zucchini bread sure is good & so is sliced squash with onions & garlic. Oven baked spaghetti squash with pizza sauce & meat is our favorite.
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You got more zucchini than I did. All of mine were stung by fruit flies.



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