Squash Harvest 2009
If you've been following along on the blog, you've heard me write concerning the squash. These were plants that I started in soil blocks off-farm, and then transplanted into the farm garden in early summer. They were irrigated by the same drip irrigation that fed the beans and corn; I used 3' foot plant spacing in rows 6 feet apart. Each transplant got a small pocket of organic fertilizer below the transplant at planting time. The variety that I planted was Hubbard squash; the Territorial seed catalog said that the flesh was sweet and creamy, and they're open-pollinated. I originally had wanted to plant Delicata squash, but Territorial had run out of seed by mid-spring. The photo above shows one specimen as it appeared in August; they got a little larger over the next month before the vines finally succumbed to frost in early October.
Kurt on 10.22.09 @ 03:11 PM PST [more...]
