We have been incredibly lucky this year to have such a tremendous harvest of winter squash and cooking pumpkins. We face our fair share of challenges by growing with organic practices. Certain pests and diseases remain a problem year after year, but we continue to mature as a farm each season to try and combat these issues, one at a time. This season the bulk of our cucumber, summer squash, zucchini, winter (fall) squash and cooking pumpkins were located at our satellite garden, just 3 miles from the main farm. This garden has a wonderful build-up of organic matter, and has been managed organically by the family who owns the farm. Nestled between several large barns and machine sheds, and protected by a meandering creek with towering trees, this small garden continues to out-perform our main farm, in terms of square feet. All these factors, combined with a long-term crop rotation plan, allowed our winter squash to mature past their most vulnerable growth stage before cucumber beetles and squash bugs blew into the garden and started doing damage. So folks, without further ado, here is our lineup of winter squash and cooking pumpkin varieties for the 2016 season. Winter Squash
Cooking Pumpkins
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1/19/2017 12:50:32 am
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8/30/2019 05:53:19 am
I did not know there are different types of squash. Based on what I can observe, they have different sizes and shape which I was really amazed because they are way different from the squash that I am familiar with. This blog is very informative, and I was able to learn a lot from this. It also helps that you included the names, varieties, and uses of each squash. It is a great help especially for those who are new to these variety of squash.
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