I feel somewhat squashed!

[chriscross1966]

My squashes and pumpkins this year.

The butternuts are mostly Harrier though the biggest of them is the sole Waltham to have set. The little acorn squash (the most numerous) is Winter Festival, the orange Hubbards are Uchiki Kuri, the green buttercups are Bon-Bon, don't know what the pumpkin is, saved seed by my sis-in-law from a bought pumpkin for Halloween last year.

The ensemble is missing three Festivals and the second-biggest pumpkin.

Just had a Harrier butternut with dinner and it was very nice  roasted with some cumin seed....

chrisc

[chriscross1966]

[grannyjanny]

Lucky you ;D. Wish I was.

[lushy86]

Wow they look fab, well done  :)

Lushy x

[chriscross1966]

Lucky you ;D. Wish I was.

What?.....roasted with cumin seed?

[grannyjanny]

No my oven's not big enough to get me in so I'll settle for feeling squashed :D.

Lucky you ;D. Wish I was.

[What?.....roasted with cumin seed? ]

[Doris_Pinks]

Sooooooo jealous, my haul this year for some reason look pathetic.........6 butternut plants and I have 2 fruits that fit in my hand...........gutted, rest of my squash are a no show....so well done you! ;D

[chriscross1966]

Sooooooo jealous, my haul this year for some reason look pathetic.........6 butternut plants and I have 2 fruits that fit in my hand...........gutted, rest of my squash are a no show....so well done you! ;D

The butternuts were very late, without the fantastic September we've just had I'd have almost none, whereas the Festivals and Bon-Bons were sorting themselves out very early... the Uchiki were swamped by the bon-bon but the fruit they set were pretty early too....

[GrannieAnnie]

 That's quite a heartening winter stash of squash!

[BAK]

very impressive chrisc. What variety is the strange bottle-shaped green one ;)

[saddad]

 ;D I hadn't spotted that one...  :)

[1066]

thats a great haul ChrisCross!
Tell us the reipie you use for beer and pumpkin pie/soup/curry/ ........  ;) And don't say surprise  ::)

[Jayb]

A very handsome harvest.

[chriscross1966]

thats a great haul ChrisCross!
Tell us the reipie you use for beer and pumpkin pie/soup/curry/ ........  ;) And don't say surprise  ::)

I find the easiest way to get beer is to go down the off-licence/supermarket :D.... THe roast butternut I had yesterday was just cut into lumps (skin on) deseeded and shaken in a bag with some olive oil and cumin seeds adn ground black pepper and roasted for 45 minutes on abut gas mark 7...

chrisc

[shirlton]

I don't think I'll bother showing you mine ;D

[1066]

I don't think I'll bother showing you mine ;D

me neither !!  ;D

[cornykev]

Go on girls, just a quick flash.    :P      ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[shirlton]

 :o

[manicscousers]

I'm quite happy, considering all the butternuts died in the manky weather, the largest of these is a red kuri from saddad's open day, it weighs 3.5 lbs, should make some nice meals  :)

[macmac]

There I was feeling really pleased with my haul,'had to bring them home as someone else was helping themselves      
still a million times better than last year

[Borlotti]

Squash soup tonight, a gift from another good friend from the allotment. I am so lucky, just walk about and people give me veg. and their veg is alway bigger and better than what I grow.