I still have WAY too much pumpkin and butternut in the freezer, so this year I grew Thelma Sander's Sweet Potato Squash. It's very good! And plenty of seeds for roasting, too.
It's an acorn-type, but keeps longer and actually has FLAVOR. It's quite sweet so you can drastically cut back on the brown sugar, if you like it that way. I find regular Acorn squash exceedingly BORING.
It's also an Heirloom variety. Baker Creek and Jung's both carry seed for it.
Thanks. That definitely looks interesting.
My SIL & I gave up on growing squash - yellow and zucchini. Typically we planted in the spring & the squash bugs were SO horrible and abundant, that even daily trying to keep them off the plants, the darn bugs would win. We surrendered ... just quit growing them.
So this year, she planted her squash in August (mid or late I think). NO squash bugs! She’s had a nice crop of yellow squash, but only one zucchini for some reason.
We love yellow squash fried up with onions or squash casserole & I like zucchini for “zoodles” and lasagna noodles. I also make the occasional zucchini bread for the folks. Next year, I think I’ll try a late squash crop and see what happens.
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