Up at the brush pile

larry@stinescorner

Well-known Member
At the top of the field ,.at the edge of the woods,we have a place to dump brush,etc,,anything that will rot away.I had almost forgot I planted some seeds in different spots,some in some old wet bales of hay that the neighbor dumped there years back
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I drove up there with the ford,they grew pretty good
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I do remember it was 50 cents in seed total,,Im just a STO
(small time operater),,but I think this was a big surprise to me.Didnt do anything but poke the seeds here and there.
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The greyish blue thing is a hubbard squash,never tried one before.,are they any good to eat?We have it as a decoration right now.
 
Don't know about the hubbard squash Larry, but how many times have you banged that wounded hand to the point of tears???? How's the hand healing?
 
In-laws used to grow a lot of hubbards. Use them like any other squash. Wife used to use it in place of pumpkin for pies. I liked it better than pumpkin, not as heavy. Dad would store them in the barn covered with straw all winter.
 
Hubbard are very good eating , mom would cut them in half, clean them out, put about
half a table spoon of butter and salt and pepper and bake. I 've never seen one that shape
before, the ones she done up were more round like the one beside it.
 
Yep - Hubbard squash are good. Dad loved 'em... but Mom didn't like to cook them because they get so big and she didn't like left-overs.
 
Just wrap up that Hubbard and send it my way- best eating squash out there, IMHO. At least when I was a kid and that was all we grew. Good keeper over the winter (wipe it down with formaldehyde solution, store in a warm, dry place). Ours were a darker green, though.
 
That must be nice to be able to just plant something and have it produce!~! the best "Treasures" are those you are not expecting,

cnt
 
Tom,

Looked for the "treasure" in Classic Farm & Tractor this issue. No Case stories. Hope your writing talent hasn't expired.

Stan
 
I use an ax to chop it up then cut away the thick skin after it is in small pieces, works for me. The skin is real thick and tough hense the ax. I find
the flavor and texture to be similar to butternut squash. I have a huge compost pile that I will try planting seeds in next spring I just don't know if
it gets enough sun. Like Larry mine started as a brush pile .
 
Back in the threshing days, it was common to plant watermelon, squash, pumpkins, etc. in the rotted bottoms of straw stacks where nothing else would grow. Dad said that was one of his jobs to plant seeds in straw stack bottoms in the spring when they lived in Iowa. What was not part of his job was stealing watermelons from the neighbor's patch at night, which was a popular thing for kids to do in those days. One night he unbuttoned the side of his bib overalls and put the biggest melon inside to carry the melon off. When the owner yelled at the boys, he took off running with the melon in front of him - then he tripped and fell. It was a gooey mess!
 
Sorry, I was hooked up for the last issue, I will have one ready for the next one,, and I will do my best to make up for the one I missed
Thank You for asking
cnt
 
Larry,
Each year I use the loader to clean off my garden and put it in the mulch pile. This year I have volunteer tomatoes growing in a new flower bed in the gravel pit.

I'm thinking I should just put old rotten tomatoes in flower beds and forget planting them in the garden.
geo
 

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