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Post by smsmith on Oct 9, 2017 16:19:25 GMT -6
With the frost coming tonight, we got everything from the garden harvested that we could. Here's the spaghetti squash. I didn't even plant the seeds, just threw some seeds on our compost pile from a squash we ate for supper last spring.
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Post by sd51555 on Oct 9, 2017 16:43:04 GMT -6
So you're eating garbage? That is pretty cool Stu!
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Post by nhmountains on Oct 9, 2017 16:52:21 GMT -6
Awesome harvest Stu. We did something similar several years ago with potatoes by mistake and had a good harvest. My wife had thrown out some green potatoes. I love spaghetti squash. How well do those store?
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Post by smsmith on Oct 9, 2017 16:58:57 GMT -6
Awesome harvest Stu. We did something similar several years ago with potatoes by mistake and had a good harvest. My wife had thrown out some green potatoes. I love spaghetti squash. How well do those store? no idea, we'll find out this year I think they'll store about as well as other winter squash, keep cool and dry and maybe get 2-3 months
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Post by nhmountains on Oct 9, 2017 17:06:05 GMT -6
Awesome harvest Stu. We did something similar several years ago with potatoes by mistake and had a good harvest. My wife had thrown out some green potatoes. I love spaghetti squash. How well do those store? no idea, we'll find out this year I think they'll store about as well as other winter squash, keep cool and dry and maybe get 2-3 months You definitely better like squash. You've got a ton. Didn't you do some pasta recipes substituting the squash for the pasta?
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Post by smsmith on Oct 9, 2017 17:10:21 GMT -6
no idea, we'll find out this year I think they'll store about as well as other winter squash, keep cool and dry and maybe get 2-3 months You definitely better like squash. You've got a ton. Didn't you do some pasta recipes substituting the squash for the pasta? Ya, we use them in place of pasta in a number of dishes. We'll give a bunch away too. When I bake one for supper...I'll just bake two instead. Then I can just scrape the flesh out, put in gallon freezer bags and store that way. The stuff freezes well (we know from using leftovers that way).
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Post by sd51555 on Oct 9, 2017 19:45:59 GMT -6
I've really grown to like spaghetti squash. I made some salmon dishes with it and it was very good.
When I was a kid, we grew potatoes via throw and mow (essentially). We just pitched out all our old potatoes that we didn't have room to plant with the rest, and covered them up with straw. Yielded very well if I remember right.
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Post by Sandbur on Oct 9, 2017 20:24:47 GMT -6
spagnetti squash is in the oven as I post. We left most of our squash in the garden. I thought some frost is good for them?
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Post by smsmith on Oct 9, 2017 20:30:06 GMT -6
spagnetti squash is in the oven as I post. We left most of our squash in the garden. I thought some frost is good for them? Dad always let the butternut squash get a light frost to kill the vines, then he'd harvest the squash. Spaghetti squash he picked before the frost...no idea why to be honest. I follow his and my grandma's gardening ideas for the most part...right or wrong, I couldn't tell you.
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Post by Sandbur on Oct 9, 2017 20:52:59 GMT -6
We like to leave the butternut and buttercup thru a frost. I kind of considered spaghetti squash a summer type and thought it should be harvested before the frost.
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Post by Sandbur on Oct 18, 2017 17:54:36 GMT -6
Our spaghetti squash have no flavor. Did too much rain allow them to grow too fast?
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Post by smsmith on Oct 18, 2017 18:02:26 GMT -6
Spaghetti squash aren't highly flavored IME. Ours have better flavor than the ones I buy in the grocery store, but they still don't have a strong flavor...totally different than say a butternut, hubbard, or acorn (none of which I like).
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Post by nhmountains on Oct 18, 2017 18:15:50 GMT -6
Spaghetti squash aren't highly flavored IME. Ours have better flavor than the ones I buy in the grocery store, but they still don't have a strong flavor...totally different than say a butternut, hubbard, or acorn (none of which I like). Stu, I take the acorns, split in two. Scoop out the seeds. Put a ball of sausage in the scooped area. Pour a little maple syrup over the sausage. Put in a baking dish with a little water in the bottom and bake at 350 until the squash is soft.
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Post by biglakebass on Oct 18, 2017 18:17:15 GMT -6
I can eat any food on the planet, but have hated all squash since I am able to remember my life. HAAAAAA
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Post by smsmith on Oct 18, 2017 18:17:15 GMT -6
^^^I've had it many ways...and just don't care for most winter squash
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