My CRON experiment: Distractions!

Tuesday, 6 February 2007

For April - my 26 year old calico girl, taken almost a year ago on a cold day. She's as mad for prawns as your Keiffer.

For Miss M - enough pumpkin for you? This was last year's squash harvest.

Anonymous said...: Niiiiice! What's the dense-looking orange one on the lower left?; 7 February 2007 at 02:44
Sara said...: Baby Bear.; 7 February 2007 at 03:53
Anonymous said...: That looks like an ideal pie pumpkin to me. What was the texture like and the seed/flesh ratio?; 7 February 2007 at 04:03
Sara said...: The larger ones actually could have served as Jack-o-Lanterns; as they got bigger the flesh was about 2 inches deep with a fist sized cavity of seeds. They were pale fleshed, a pale orange, and fairly, but not overly, fibrous. The younger ones roasted really well.

I really should have saved those sweet mama seeds! That had a very sweet, deep orange, thick, non-fibrous flesh - almost the colour of sweet potato - with compact seeds and not much stringy stuff around them.; 7 February 2007 at 04:50
Anonymous said...: Yummy! I'm really looking forward to growing squash this year. Where did you get seeds for the long yellow one on the upper left (that we eat when they're courgette-age in the US, boiled - crookneck squash in the database).; 7 February 2007 at 08:19
Sara said...: It's actually an overgrown yellow courgette... :-) I probably picked the seeds up somewhere basic like Homebase.

I need an allotment blog as well! Maybe I will resurrect my old one.; 8 February 2007 at 02:15

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