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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jan 14, 2023 13:56:27 GMT -6
Now, the chickens will probably spread it again. That's nice to think about this time of year.
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Post by FrostyTurnip on May 15, 2023 16:53:56 GMT -6
My OTCP seeds sprouted! I hadn’t much left, so they are in pots. This worked well on winter squash last year. I am so hopeful to get some this year.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jul 5, 2023 16:29:02 GMT -6
George,
Those Old-Timey cornfield Pumpkins are so incredibly impressive to me still. I have a small one that I harvested last September that I didn't harvest for seed. It's a little bigger than a softball, but smaller than a cantaloupe. I've just been keeping it to see how long I could. It's now July and that thing still looks almost as sound as it did the day I picked it. Those have incredible storage lives, like nothing I've ever seen; which is a good thing because the grasshoppers ate every one of the 45 OTC pumpkin plants that I had growing this season. If I had harvested seed from this one and planted it, I'd have zero for next year.
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Post by macmex on Jul 7, 2023 6:54:17 GMT -6
I still have half a dozen hanging around the house. Every now and then I cook one up and,... yes, they are still good as new! They should be starting to dry out soon though.
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Post by macmex on Jul 13, 2023 9:56:40 GMT -6
I came home from work yesterday to find an Old Timey Cornfield Pumpkin setting at my place at the kitchen table. That's my wife's signal that it's time to have it processed. No doubt, she found it under the couch or hiding somewhere in the living room. ( I stash them where I can find places ) Anyway, I cut it and was impressed that after 9 months of storage (room temperature) this squash seemed good as new!
It cooked up just fine. We had squash with our supper last night.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jul 14, 2023 12:48:20 GMT -6
Those pumpkins are absolutely amazing! No doubt those would keep until harvest time comes in late August or even longer. Those are always such a happy-making thing to see!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jul 14, 2023 18:25:57 GMT -6
That does look beautiful.
I also got a kick out of the communication via pumpkin in your household, macmex. I think that if I found a pumpkin under my couch in July, and I knew that many more were growing in the field for harvest in the next couple of months, I’d probably think it time to have it processed, too. I just loved how you told the story about Jerreth’s leaving it at your spot as a signal for processing.
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Post by amyinowasso on Jul 30, 2023 12:00:52 GMT -6
macmex somewhere I believe I read that you could bake squash and pumpkins whole when they were too hard to cut. Did I make this up or did you once say this? If it's true, how long did you bake it for? Has anybody here tried it?
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jul 30, 2023 13:32:06 GMT -6
I’ve cooked squash and small pumpkins whole before in my crock pot. I’ve never done something really large obviously since it wouldn’t fit. It worked just fine to cook first and cut afterwards. It took hours in a crockpot, of course. I can’t speak to the oven.
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