{"id":1113,"date":"2013-12-06T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2013-12-06T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T22:02:42","slug":"mystery-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/mystery-squash\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"

It had been about 5 years since my last serious summer garden. \u00a0But for 2013, I planted summer squash, cabbage, lettuce, carrots, beans, chard, and a few miscellaneous items with mixed results. My best success was about 100 pounds of Romanesco\u00a0(summer squash that is like zucchini, with stripes and more flavor) plus others from a bed with 12 seedlings.<\/p>\n

Then there were the volunteers. \u00a0A boatload of tomatoes and several squash plants, mostly winter. \u00a0I got two lovely sugar pie pumpkins, a box load of Delicata, and a mystery vine.<\/p>\n

It looked like a bulbous yellow summer squash at first but, picked young, it had no flavor. \u00a0I left it on the vine to see what would happen, gave some to the neighbors, and, just before the first frost, ended up with one giant.<\/p>\n

17.8 pounds!!<\/p>\n

\"Mystery<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Could it be a banana squash? \u00a0We had indeed bought a banana squash to try from the same local farm a few years ago that the rest of the volunteers seemed to have come from. \u00a0But theirs are the pink kind.<\/p>\n

\"Mystery<\/a><\/p>\n

Cut open, it was a pretty yellow, with a dry core and huge pumpkin-like seeds.<\/p>\n

\"Mystery<\/a><\/p>\n

Cooked, it was slightly stringy, but not as much as an (overcooked) spaghetti squash. \u00a0It tasted like a mild butternut. \u00a0The skin was edible too. \u00a0Very thin with a surprisingly nice flavor. \u00a0Not my first choice in squashes but quite good. \u00a0We wrapped up most of it for the freezer.<\/p>\n

\"Mystery<\/a><\/p>\n

So what do you think? \u00a0Yellow banana squash? \u00a0Random cross between a spaghetti and butternut? \u00a0Or something else entirely?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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