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Related: About this forumThe surprise Acorn Squash mutant...
Last years Acorn and Zucchini squash beds were good time buddies; from a completely ordinary Acorn Squash, delicious by the way, the seeds
oh the seeds
gave us some very unusual fruits.
Started out looking like normal zucchini or acorns the the combo took over some but not others.
The ones that looked like zucchini we ate, I let the others alone to see what would happen. Today cleaning up the beds I decided to cut open one of the too small to be done and got surprised.
Maybe
maybe if let alone to mature it may be edible. The flesh is a little more yellow than the picture represents.
So Im leaving the huge ones alone till whenever they look done, probably the end of the month.
Hand shovel there for scale.
We will see.
1WorldHope
(902 posts)I thought it said mute acorn squash.
MiHale
(10,783 posts)zuul
(14,664 posts)Attilatheblond
(4,305 posts)ShepKat
(419 posts)MiHale
(10,783 posts)2naSalit and I have been discussing this. She warned me about cross pollination. She had acorn zucchini and spaghetti squashes getting together.
2naSalit
(92,705 posts)That's exactly what I tried to describe during our interchange about them cross pollinating. The same variety of morphs developed in our patch a few years back. Some were edible, others not. We had a couple weird spaghetti squash mutants too, I did not open those myself. The acorn-ish one that I did try to eat was rather pithy. The more zucchini-like were edible, the small ones.
MiHale
(10,783 posts)Exactly
well see what the big ones bring.
Talking to a friend the other day about what to do withem
surprise!
Make flour.
Shes Amish has a farm and greenhouse down the way. You can either peel or not but what you do is break down the squash by grater, food processor or whatever
the idea is to get the pieces small so they can dehydrate completely. She grates and sun dries hers. Then after drying process into a fine powder. You can use any squash.
I found a link that explains it as well as she did plus a little more.
https://www.amodernhomestead.com/how-to-make-squash-flour/
2naSalit
(92,705 posts)Next round of actual gardening, I will keep that in mind. In fact, the organics store has a bin of squash, I might just get a couple so I can try it.
Thanks!
ratchiweenie
(7,923 posts)I grow various squash every year and had no idea they could cross pollinate.