Posted on 12/03/2006 9:36:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv
I was at Horrocks tonight (it’s my favorite grocery store) and cruised the veg plant racks. They had small but robust squash plants, and they were tagged “red hubbard”. Oh yeah, now that’s what I’m talkin’ about. I like squash in general, and hubbards are probably my favorite (along with buttercup; also like butternut, don’t like acorn all that well), perhaps mainly because they are so goofy lookin’, and generally grow to abnormal sizes. :’D The red hubbard is occasionally seen as “old fashioned hubbard” (in the local rural parlance here) and was the basis for Burpee’s “Lakota” I believe.
And just when my best one was nearing maturity, suddenly about 18” was missing off the stem end: one of my veggie loving Shelties had munched it!
They also stole every cherry tomato they could find...but smart little bugger that they were, wouldn't touch one if I tried to give them one.
“Uh, uhh, Daddy; I doesn't gots any idea what that thing is, so youse can't rub my nose in it, spank me, and throw me outside!”
It was truly funny, because I could watch them through the kitchen window sneaking over, rearing up, and picking them off the vines just as fast as they could chomp them.
Later, in Oregon, they taught each other how to pick & eat blackberries without getting stuck with the thorns.
One depraved little walking appetite developed a taste for RAW quince! She even managed to work & jimmy a door open to get to a bag of them in the back bedroom.
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