A Fall Display

It always starts to feel like Fall when the Winter Squash are ready. Here's a nice little display Farmer Boy did outside our front door. There is some spaghetti squash in there: the cream-coloured ovals. The bright orange round ones are a Kabocha type called Winter Sunshine, the bright orange one on the right is a golden Hubbard. There is a Long Green English Marrow, and a blue Kabocha called Confection. On top and to the left, with the ridges is a hybrid between Acorn and Delicata called Carnival. All are great eating and store well, too. What doesn't go to CSA or the Farmers' Markets we will store in the root cellar and have good eating past Christmas. The Kabocha group has some awesome eating: smooth and sweet flesh, great as a side dish or good for pies and muffins. We haven't met a Winter Squash we don't like! And they are all quite unique - so lots of variety. If the weather stays warm, we should have an outstanding harvest by the end of September, except maybe the Butternut, which continues to poke along.