Great to see another squash addict! Excellent work getting larger fruit and a good harvest. Seminole pumpkin is one of our favorite types here in the tropics.
Thank you, David! There are so many tempting varieties that it's always hard to narrow dowm my list :-) Do you think I can grow Seminole succesfully in our temperate climate, too?
Another great review video. Thank you for sharing your experience with growing and eating these squash. This is not a vegetable, any squash really, that I grew up eating. So now, I like to try them all! Since watching your review from last year, while looking at my Territorial seed catalog, I found Butterkin, which looks a lot like your mystery pumpkin/squash. It says it is taking gardeners and gourmet markets by storm because of it's flavor and size. Thank you again for the recipe. Happy Gardening! Catherine p.s. - Would love to know what you have chosen for 2018
I'll look up Butterkin, thanks for the suggestion! So far on mylist for this year are different early butternuts (Harrier, Hunter, Waltham, ButterNut...) + Anvers, Hoenybear, Festival and Autumn Crown. I can't wait to start sowing!
Your reviews have inspired me to try some new varieties myself. Since I will have room at my community garden, I plan to try: Moranga, Baby Blue Hubbard, Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash and Vegetable Spaghetti Squash. All the seeds will come from Baker Creek. We have snow with a glaze of ice on top this morning, so it will be some time before I can even get in the yard, but everyone's videos give me hope!
'm a fan of Cherokee roasters and this year I'm also going to try a similar one some call a Lincoln squash as its said the President once grew them. Any tips for increasing yield? It seems like my Cherokee Roasters get one and maybe two on a vine and then everything else dies. I have gone to hand pollinating etc. But the ones further down the vine get to cucumber size or even bigger and then die. I figure most of the energy goes into those massive squash and therefore the ones further along don't do well. I have cut the vine after the secondary squash and that didn't seem to help. I tried cutting the vine after the primary squash. That may help as the plants send off side shoots before the primary squash. I'll have to experiment more this coming season to be sure. Any advice is appreciated. These squash are OMG tasty with slices wrapped in bacons and roasted !!! I want more !!
Hi from Australia! I am so pleased I found you, I love to grow but then struggle with what to do with the harvest! I can't wait to try your recipes. Just curious how many pumpkins did you grow per bed? Or do you have a different spot in your garden for them? Which plant is the most productive for its size?
Hi Kylie and thank you! I did not grow the squash in my raised beds since they take up so much space - I planted them under some young fruit trees at the back of the garden. I also had some butternuts growing on our compost heaps ( 1 plant per heap) and I think those were the most productive. Probably also because they started to set fruits earlier because of the gentle bottom heat from the decomposing matter. Otherwise, spaghetti squash is very productive, too. And if you have little space, maybe you could grow a small fruited variety vertically on some trellies?
Thank you this great squash review! I'd love to hear what you thought of the flavor of the North Georgia Candy Roaster squash. This is my first year growing winter squashes and I am growing 5 varieties... 1. NG Candy Roaster 2. Jack-B-Little Pumpkins 3. Black Sweet Potato Cushaw type 4. Walthem Butternut and 5. Connecticut Field Pumpkins... I'm new to the southern appalachian region of the US so I am experimenting with local tradition of growing the 3 sisters, so my squashes are planted around a block of Painted Moutain Corn, Scarlet Emperor Runner Beans, and Black Turtle Beans, with one row of the '4th sister', Mammoth Grey Stripe Sunflowers. So far I am pleased with all but the Jack-B-Littles, they seem to have had a much lower emergence rate than the rest.
Nice to hear you're trying the Three sisters polyculture! I liked the Candy Roaster well enough (we made soup, gnocchi, cake and pumpkin cinnamon rolls from one fruit!) but I like butternuts like Waltham better. I'm curious what you'll think!
Yes, they do need a lot of space! But some (espacially the smaller fruited varieites) can also be grown vertically - maybe that is an option? I will have less space for squash in the future so I'm trying to test as many varieties as possible to find out our favourites :-)
Bolster (the dutch seed company) has a variety that (I think Alligator F1 and another one) that stay as small as a courgette plant. A bushy type pumpkin without long vines. I looooved the Alligator F1 pumpkin. It's a kuri type pumpkin with great flavor and it stays green on the outside
Hi! I suggest you try Marble F1 next time. It is also a grey, but size is perfect, around 1 kg and yield is prolific. Thick flesh and great taste and colour.
Thanks, Dough! Good question about the squash: I forgot to mention it in the video - I roasted some of it to taste it and it tasted ok, a bit like the spaghetti squash (so quite neutral) but the flesh does not look like spaghetti. But I think probably all of the other squashes taste better :-)
Chersonskaya squash look a lot like crown prince, I'm wondering if it's an Ukrainian name for the same squash. You might find the seeds easier to find under that name. They are a lovely sweet squash, I've grown them in the UK for a couple of years now and I'll be harvesting this year's soon, looks like I might get 10 from 5 plants.
Yes, I have grown it! It's a lovely variety that you can very well grow vertically because the fruits are small and light. I have grown it up a teepee made out of willow branches
No, we don't get those here (we're lucky!). The main problem are slugs and mildew later in the season. And also that our summers can be too cold for some varieties, especially some of the moschata sqash
I like your accent. It's lovely. My paternal grandpa was from Belgium. His beautiful garden inspired me as a child. Now yours does, too. ❤❤❤
Great to see another squash addict! Excellent work getting larger fruit and a good harvest. Seminole pumpkin is one of our favorite types here in the tropics.
Thank you, David! There are so many tempting varieties that it's always hard to narrow dowm my list :-) Do you think I can grow Seminole succesfully in our temperate climate, too?
Great selection of winter squash, Vera!
Thank you, Patrick! There are so many interesting varieties of winter squash to try, I'm already selecting new ones for next year :-)
Thank you for these great quality materials. I really enjoy the style, simple and clear, common sense based.
Thank you, Andreea, so much! I'm glad you like the style of my videos!
They sure are addictive once you start , I grew gem squash last year , which is a summer variety , but great for roasting , I was very impressed .
Very addictive - I already have so many varieties that I want to try this year :-) I dod not know gem squash - it looks interesting!
Another great review video. Thank you for sharing your experience with growing and eating these squash. This is not a vegetable, any squash really, that I grew up eating. So now, I like to try them all! Since watching your review from last year, while looking at my Territorial seed catalog, I found Butterkin, which looks a lot like your mystery pumpkin/squash. It says it is taking gardeners and gourmet markets by storm because of it's flavor and size. Thank you again for the recipe. Happy Gardening! Catherine p.s. - Would love to know what you have chosen for 2018
I'll look up Butterkin, thanks for the suggestion! So far on mylist for this year are different early butternuts (Harrier, Hunter, Waltham, ButterNut...) + Anvers, Hoenybear, Festival and Autumn Crown. I can't wait to start sowing!
Your reviews have inspired me to try some new varieties myself. Since I will have room at my community garden, I plan to try: Moranga, Baby Blue Hubbard, Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash and Vegetable Spaghetti Squash. All the seeds will come from Baker Creek. We have snow with a glaze of ice on top this morning, so it will be some time before I can even get in the yard, but everyone's videos give me hope!
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'm a fan of Cherokee roasters and this year I'm also going to try a similar one some call a Lincoln squash as its said the President once grew them. Any tips for increasing yield? It seems like my Cherokee Roasters get one and maybe two on a vine and then everything else dies. I have gone to hand pollinating etc. But the ones further down the vine get to cucumber size or even bigger and then die. I figure most of the energy goes into those massive squash and therefore the ones further along don't do well. I have cut the vine after the secondary squash and that didn't seem to help. I tried cutting the vine after the primary squash. That may help as the plants send off side shoots before the primary squash. I'll have to experiment more this coming season to be sure. Any advice is appreciated. These squash are OMG tasty with slices wrapped in bacons and roasted !!! I want more !!
Hi from Australia! I am so pleased I found you, I love to grow but then struggle with what to do with the harvest! I can't wait to try your recipes. Just curious how many pumpkins did you grow per bed? Or do you have a different spot in your garden for them? Which plant is the most productive for its size?
Hi Kylie and thank you! I did not grow the squash in my raised beds since they take up so much space - I planted them under some young fruit trees at the back of the garden. I also had some butternuts growing on our compost heaps ( 1 plant per heap) and I think those were the most productive. Probably also because they started to set fruits earlier because of the gentle bottom heat from the decomposing matter. Otherwise, spaghetti squash is very productive, too. And if you have little space, maybe you could grow a small fruited variety vertically on some trellies?
Thank you this great squash review! I'd love to hear what you thought of the flavor of the North Georgia Candy Roaster squash. This is my first year growing winter squashes and I am growing 5 varieties... 1. NG Candy Roaster 2. Jack-B-Little Pumpkins 3. Black Sweet Potato Cushaw type 4. Walthem Butternut and 5. Connecticut Field Pumpkins... I'm new to the southern appalachian region of the US so I am experimenting with local tradition of growing the 3 sisters, so my squashes are planted around a block of Painted Moutain Corn, Scarlet Emperor Runner Beans, and Black Turtle Beans, with one row of the '4th sister', Mammoth Grey Stripe Sunflowers. So far I am pleased with all but the Jack-B-Littles, they seem to have had a much lower emergence rate than the rest.
Nice to hear you're trying the Three sisters polyculture! I liked the Candy Roaster well enough (we made soup, gnocchi, cake and pumpkin cinnamon rolls from one fruit!) but I like butternuts like Waltham better. I'm curious what you'll think!
This video is very helpful. Thank you.
so glad to hear that, Lori!
we love the very sweet delicata! so do all 4 legged critters and insects including fireants. try sunspot and sunshine you’ll love them too!
Lots of very interesting-sounding squashes there. Unfortunately, our garden is too small to grow squash.
Yes, they do need a lot of space! But some (espacially the smaller fruited varieites) can also be grown vertically - maybe that is an option? I will have less space for squash in the future so I'm trying to test as many varieties as possible to find out our favourites :-)
That is one thing I'm contemplating for next year. Either along the fence, or trelised like Patrick from the OYR channel does it.
Bolster (the dutch seed company) has a variety that (I think Alligator F1 and another one) that stay as small as a courgette plant. A bushy type pumpkin without long vines. I looooved the Alligator F1 pumpkin. It's a kuri type pumpkin with great flavor and it stays green on the outside
Hi! I suggest you try Marble F1 next time. It is also a grey, but size is perfect, around 1 kg and yield is prolific. Thick flesh and great taste and colour.
Thanks for the recommendation, Lars! I'm writing it down!
Very informative! Thanks. Do you eat the flesh of Penelopa or just use the seeds?
Thanks, Dough! Good question about the squash: I forgot to mention it in the video - I roasted some of it to taste it and it tasted ok, a bit like the spaghetti squash (so quite neutral) but the flesh does not look like spaghetti. But I think probably all of the other squashes taste better :-)
Chersonskaya squash look a lot like crown prince, I'm wondering if it's an Ukrainian name for the same squash. You might find the seeds easier to find under that name. They are a lovely sweet squash, I've grown them in the UK for a couple of years now and I'll be harvesting this year's soon, looks like I might get 10 from 5 plants.
Hello Vera, have you grown Jack Be Little before? Do you know how much space does it need? Thanks in advance ^^
Yes, I have grown it! It's a lovely variety that you can very well grow vertically because the fruits are small and light. I have grown it up a teepee made out of willow branches
Do you ever have trouble with vine borers or squash bugs?
No, we don't get those here (we're lucky!). The main problem are slugs and mildew later in the season. And also that our summers can be too cold for some varieties, especially some of the moschata sqash
A slug, lol, she's right and that's the image I'll see forever now too, lol.
Sorry about that 🙃