Comments on: Butternut squash is the best winter squash

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:53:09 +0000

Hi, Kate, and welcome! Glad you found the information you needed. Please stop by again.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:49:07 +0000

Greetings from Oregon, where we’re about to have our first frost of the year. We are housesitting for a friend whose butternut squash is rapidly maturing in the garden. Unsure of whether to harvest it before the frost, I googled “frost-garden-butternut squash,” and up came your blog! Thanks for the info and inspiration. I too am a big fan of the butternut now, especially in savory dishes (I like the ravioli idea…)!

By: debra

debra — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:51:55 +0000

yum, yum, yum, Kathy. I know what I’m buying at tomorrow’s Farmer’s Market! PS, I got some great colchicum photos for you on our Portland-GWA garden tours….to come, deb

By: Vertie

Vertie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:37:07 +0000

My husband loves, loves butternut squash. I make purees flavored with vanilla, tacos, empanadas, anything I can find with butternut. I also really like kabocha. Have you grown that one?

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:02:55 +0000

Robin, I hope you know you can feed summer squash to your chickens. They love the seeds especially, so the overmature ones are best. Slice lengthwise and serve seed side up.

By: Robin Wedewer

Robin Wedewer — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:38:26 +0000

Yum – more good squash recipes. The only problem is that I didn’t grow any winter squash. As you know, I was–still am–overrun with summer squash. What was I thinking? Oh–I was thinking about chickens!

Robin
Ntl Gardening Examiner
(and chicken lover)

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:13:39 +0000

I just learned this month that winter squash is not named that because of the season it grows in (at least not here). I’m looking forward to growing cushaw squash in my garden next spring, which is what my grandmother used to fix for me when I was little, with butter and brown sugar.

By: tedb

tedb — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:40:55 +0000

We expanded the veg garden this year and are growing Butternut for the first time. Thanks for the info regarding havesting. We’ve picked some that looks ripe are hardened them off in the sun, but I’ll leave the rest until we get cold again. Like Kathy our farm is in a valley and prone to early frosts. We already had the first frost a week ago or so, but it was very light – only the basil seemed affected. I’m sure the next frost isn’t to far away.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:04:49 +0000

I like it when you mention home schooling cause I did it too. We moved a great deal and it kept a sense of consistency on the subject matter. I miss those days.

The squash project looks very artistic. Thanks for the recipes too.

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:44:13 +0000

The moderating influence of a large body of water (the ocean for Boston) is something we lack here. Even my sister, 100 miles north, has a later first frost because she is right on Lake Ontario. And we are in a cold pocket to boot–the “North Pole” of our county. Our first frost is typically the 3rd week of September. Shoot, we have snow flurries in the second half of October, though usually the snow doesn’t stick.