What's your plan for use on one that size? I tried Hubbard's a couple years but found them too big for one person to get through fresh. The tough skin made it more work than I thought it was worth to process for canning chunks and I can only eat so much soup. Have gone to mostly delicata and butternut since you can eat everything but the stem. Butternuts usually keep until late spring just sitting on a shelf in the basement.I put a pink banana jumbo squash plant in one of my failed garlic beds to see how it would really do if it had good conditions.
This plant spans the entire frame of this pic. These squash are said to reach 50 pounds if they have the juice and time to go the distance.
Scratch that, 70 pounds.
60 days to go for these to fill out. It could be a photo finish for these if they get to the end. There are at least 10 growing here and more developing yet.
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Habitat out loud
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5 year old buck +
November deer food. I’d like to lay down 6’ wide strips of landscape fabric In my plots this winter and pull them off at squash planting time and get in 50 plants if I can. Deer will eat any squash or pumpkin by me and they wait until November to do it.
But they can eat a lot. I dumped a heaping 6’ truck bed full into a pile years ago after season, and they ate that whole truckload in under three weeks.
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