Your garden looks great. Enjoy your harvest. Your honeynut squash looks ready to pick, Once they turn orange and the tendril has dried it's ready to pick. I'm still waiting on ours and most are still green. We spent two hours today in the heat just picking tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, swiss chard, celery, carrots, cucumbers and some turnip greens. Came in with 3 bushel baskets of tomatoes all in blushing state to ripen indoors. Tomatoes, butternut squash, pumpkins, zucchini, yellow squash, honeynut and Trombonchino squash are on steroids this year. I'm afraid that after 3 to 4 days of all this rain we are suppose to get in northern NJ that the squash plants are gonna take over the yard. Most are grown vertically up over structures but have started to expand outward
@@karenfrankland7763 thank you! I need to get some more hog panels around the garden because I just don't have enough for the amount of melons I want to have growing. Luckily I have a big area of wood chips that they seem to love growing on and doesn't cause the same type of issues that regular soil can cause (disease). Are you talking about the butternut on the ground or that tiny one on the trellis? I was hoping to have a good amount of butternut for longer storage.
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ Butternut squash are the bigger long lasting tan colored squash. I still have two from last year that are still perfect. The small orange one hanging is a Honeynut butternut. This is our 3rd year growing them. They are a hybrid so you can't save the seeds. The honeynuts are super sweet. The don't store like a butternut. You might get them to store about 3 months.
@@SlowAndHomesteadyNJ your welcome, it's always nice to see someone else in NJ growing a garden. Wait til you taste that honeynut squash. I usually cook two at a time. One for hubby and one for me. They are so good. No butter or seasoning required. Slice in half, remove the seeds and bake with a little olive oil or avacodo oil sprayed on the top.
@@karenfrankland7763 I was looking forward to the honeynut but unfortunately that vine didn't do well. At least I have the full size to fall back on. I'll be sure to get some of honeynut going again next year.
Under the tree is Old North Sea and in the large garden bed is a mix of yellow and white varieties. I believe I got the seeds from migardeners website. The north sea were live plants from rareseeds.com
