The above picture is our seasonal display at At The Rainbow. It features the produce of our garden, the squash garden in particular.
Despite attacks by squash bugs, all the plants seemed rather resilient this year: attacked and bitten along one vine, the plant sent out fresh unaffected vines in two or three other places, blossoming and fruiting before the bugs found and took down the new vines, which released more new vines to stay ahead of the bugs.
There is only one Hubbard squash in the picture, but in July we were frenetically cooking and freezing a whole passel of Hubbard’s, the first ones to bear and mature, and the first one to be taken out by the bugs, though one lone vine survived until our final harvest.
We got a few dozen acorn squash too, the next one to be prolific and the next to be halted by the bugs. The butternuts were growing to final harvest but less prolific.
You will notice one white pumpkin, it was one of two of the Lumina pumpkins that grew. The other tried to grow between two boards of one of the tomato trellises and popped itself open.
We had three pumpkin varieties. The smaller ones are pie quality pumpkins and you see a lot of them. We also had Howden Biggies, the two tall ones you see. They didn’t get to the size they were supposed to, but were the biggest we got, and were obviously different from the rest of them.
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