Monster squashes. Pick early?

Aug 19, 2017 1 Replies

As usual this season I'm growing some delicata squashes. I leave these on t he vine until the vine has completely died and dried back in the fall. It s eems to consistently produce very sweet, rich tasting fruits.



This year the plants have amongst the rest of the fruits produced four huge squashes and I wondered if they should be picked earlier than the rest of them, or let them wait for fall with all the rest. The color and striping o n these looks to be a month ahead of all the others and they are bigger now than any I've grown before or seen in stores.



Don't know what is best here.


i would leave them until the stems and leaves are done (as usual).

i'm not familiar with delicata squash in general though.

songbird

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