Our two varieties of blue pumpkins both ripened this past week. The big, lumpy ones in back are Blue Hubbard squash and the more pumpkin-shaped ones in front are Queensland Blue. They weigh about 11 pounds and 9 pounds, respectively.
About half of the patch is picked but a few varieties are still growing.
Paul
They sure don't look appetizing with that gray coloring. I don't eat much pumpkin or squash anyway but it looks like a good, big crop. I wonder what a pumpkin pie would look like from one of those.
George
i usually pick everything later rather than sooner. we have sunny and warm weather the rest of the week at least that is what the forecast is saying. squash can wait while we get the tomatoes and peppers done and i get caught up on a project while the sun is shining.
but the past few evenings we've had temps down into the 30s now so things are getting the message to finish up soon.
some beans are still green/growing/flowering and i'm surprised the pepper plants are not pouting about the cold and seem to be doing ok today.
songbird
And I was just complaining to the boss lady about getting up to low sixties in the morning. I could not live where it got below that. Spent some time in the frozen north as a young man and learned quickly I am not made for anywhere it freezes. Brr!!
George
I have never eaten the lumpy one, but Queensland Blue is a delicious pumpkin, very orange and intensely flavoured, especially when roasted.
JB
, lumpy ones in back are Blue Hubbard squash and the more pumpkin-shaped on es in front are Queensland Blue. They weigh about 11 pounds and 9 pounds, r espectively.
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Unfortunately, beneath that greyish-blue exterior the flesh is the usual or ange pumpkin color. I had hoped for a blue pumpkin pie. Some years back we had chickens that laid green eggs; I was very disappointed when I broke the first one to find that the contents were the usual egg color; a green yolk would have been more entertaining.
We grew the Blue Hubbard last year and they're a very good winter squash. T hey keep for months and whatever we don't eat go to the sheep.
Paul
, lumpy ones in back are Blue Hubbard squash and the more pumpkin-shaped on es in front are Queensland Blue. They weigh about 11 pounds and 9 pounds, r espectively.
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The pumpkin vines died back in the back half of the patch and the vines det ached from the fruit easily, so I gathered them up. We still have a dozen o r so neck pumpkins out in the field; their vines and leaves are still going strong, so I'll leave them until they wilt.
Paul
Thanks for the input; my wife will be interested in roasting them.
Paul
We had those fancy chickens a long time ago, tuffed head, tuffed feet, funny little birds, each one laid a different color. Finally ate them all as there eggs were small and not often. Went back to standard laying hens. Lady of the house tried various chickens and we went back to the old standard laying hens. I grew up on a small farm as did my wife, our Dad's went off to work five days a week so we had to do the chores.
This is our last home, just big enough for us and our stuff, small lot, easy to mow. Just sitting around waiting our turn for the Pearly Gates.
George
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