4:59 I had butternut last 18 months and longer. Of course they dried out quite a bit, but didn’t rot. I suppose you could grind it to make flour and bake something with it.
8:44 I had a round (I think an F1) green summer squash and it crossed with a Snow White patison summer squash. I planted the seeds from the white Pattinson and I got huge, round, Snow White squash the next year. I didn’t eat them, fed them to the worm farm.
Just wandered over after watching this years video. So last October I picked up a bunch of the huge 'decorative' fall squash that Walmart puts right in front of the door between Halloween and Thanksgiving, my hypothesis is they are the accidental crosses or throwbacks from local farmers that they could not sell as whatever it was they meant to be growing in that field. We saved seed and ate most of them just fine, the worst thing we got was a generally tasteless one. There was one that got lost in the back of a closet until last month, for reference that's 10 months, it was in perfect condition, and saying that closet wasn't the best place to store food would be an understatement, its on the sunny side of a park tailor .... we seeded it and cooked it up, it wasn't bitter? more just uncomfortably zucchini flavored, I don't know, but we tossed it out to the old lady possum out back, but I still have the seeds we saved. I want to create landraces on our new property, so I'm collecting diversity, and that sort of storage life would be amazing, but that flavor, it was just terrible. Any thoughts for me? Could I breed out the flavor while maintaining the storage, or would I just be poisoning my project either figuratively or literally? Thanks for such an informative video!
C. maxima is actually south american origin. Same with pepo and moschata. Cushaw is now C.mixta which is actually a newish name. Its melons or gourds I think that originate in africa. I know there is a winter squash variety that is a hybrid of I think maxima and moschata but its sterile and needs another maxima or moschata to pollinate it for fruit. Tetsukabuto. Mixta, formerly argyrosperma, is also S. american origin.
this past year I finally had to toss ALL of my squash seeds which crossed....my winters and summer boo hoo! This year i'm going to pay a lot of attention to my Curcurbit families, where i'm planting and what my NEIGHBORS are planting near me. I've seen written (as a rule) that in order not to cross we should be planting different types of squash, from the same families at least a mile apart. ha! I don't have that much room. What do you consider a safe distance? I'd also say I simply don't have the patience to pollinate and wrap in paper. I love Sweet Meat and/or Hubbard.
Nightshades cross a bit though, right? I’ve heard that before. Or maybe just nightshades that are close, like different varieties of peppers? Or different kinds of tomatoes can cross each other. Just curious. If it needs a long answer feel free to do a video. 😂 I LOVE summer squash. So yummie. Thanks for this video! It actually helped me out a lot! I’ve got Queen Anne’s lace and carrot growing in the same space and I’m saving the seeds. So we’ll see if they’re close enough to siblings to cross pollenate, or if they’re only cousins.
I just grew squash and watermelon together and got a watermelon that when cut is full of yellow squash like stuff in middle its inedible and never good grow together. I learned this the hard way
4:59 I had butternut last 18 months and longer. Of course they dried out quite a bit, but didn’t rot. I suppose you could grind it to make flour and bake something with it.
8:44 I had a round (I think an F1) green summer squash and it crossed with a Snow White patison summer squash. I planted the seeds from the white Pattinson and I got huge, round, Snow White squash the next year. I didn’t eat them, fed them to the worm farm.
Just wandered over after watching this years video. So last October I picked up a bunch of the huge 'decorative' fall squash that Walmart puts right in front of the door between Halloween and Thanksgiving, my hypothesis is they are the accidental crosses or throwbacks from local farmers that they could not sell as whatever it was they meant to be growing in that field. We saved seed and ate most of them just fine, the worst thing we got was a generally tasteless one. There was one that got lost in the back of a closet until last month, for reference that's 10 months, it was in perfect condition, and saying that closet wasn't the best place to store food would be an understatement, its on the sunny side of a park tailor .... we seeded it and cooked it up, it wasn't bitter? more just uncomfortably zucchini flavored, I don't know, but we tossed it out to the old lady possum out back, but I still have the seeds we saved. I want to create landraces on our new property, so I'm collecting diversity, and that sort of storage life would be amazing, but that flavor, it was just terrible. Any thoughts for me? Could I breed out the flavor while maintaining the storage, or would I just be poisoning my project either figuratively or literally? Thanks for such an informative video!
That's a VERY interesting project you've got!! Good Success!
C. maxima is actually south american origin. Same with pepo and moschata. Cushaw is now C.mixta which is actually a newish name. Its melons or gourds I think that originate in africa. I know there is a winter squash variety that is a hybrid of I think maxima and moschata but its sterile and needs another maxima or moschata to pollinate it for fruit. Tetsukabuto. Mixta, formerly argyrosperma, is also S. american origin.
Can a zucchini /spaghetti squash hybrid be eaten?
Lol I feel exactly the same way you do about acorn squash. So overrated! Much prefer kabocha or delicata
Right??? Life is short and there is soooo much good squash out there. Truly wonderful squash. I’m not gonna waste my time with acorn squash. Yuck. ;)
I've never liked the taste if them.
Kabocha and delicata, conveniently, grow very well in my backyard.
this past year I finally had to toss ALL of my squash seeds which crossed....my winters and summer boo hoo! This year i'm going to pay a lot of attention to my Curcurbit families, where i'm planting and what my NEIGHBORS are planting near me. I've seen written (as a rule) that in order not to cross we should be planting different types of squash, from the same families at least a mile apart. ha! I don't have that much room. What do you consider a safe distance? I'd also say I simply don't have the patience to pollinate and wrap in paper. I love Sweet Meat and/or Hubbard.
Nightshades cross a bit though, right? I’ve heard that before. Or maybe just nightshades that are close, like different varieties of peppers? Or different kinds of tomatoes can cross each other.
Just curious. If it needs a long answer feel free to do a video. 😂
I LOVE summer squash. So yummie.
Thanks for this video! It actually helped me out a lot! I’ve got Queen Anne’s lace and carrot growing in the same space and I’m saving the seeds. So we’ll see if they’re close enough to siblings to cross pollenate, or if they’re only cousins.
Thanks for the detailed info!
I have pumpkin and spaghetti squash that I think cross pollinated .. can you eat these ?
yea np They are both edible and prob same species. Spaghetti is C.pepo and so is the pumpkin probably, though pumpkins can be from 3 species.
So are musk melons and cucumbers okay next to each other?
Absolutely!
I just grew squash and watermelon together and got a watermelon that when cut is full of yellow squash like stuff in middle its inedible and never good grow together. I learned this the hard way
Squash and watermelon don't cross.
You picked it before it was ripe.
I just had the same thing happen. My watermelon was yellowish with squash looking seeds
Just answer the question