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Our 2023 winter squash harvest is now in the books. We grew 4 varieties, and planted 8 plants of each variety 4 separate beds. Here is a list of the varieties we chose and their respective yields from each 50 square foot bed.
Red Kuri Squash 99.6lbs
Prism Butternut Squash 92.2 lbs
Jester Delicata Squash 51.9 lbs
Sweet Mama Squash 92.8 lbs
There are a few crops that could still give us a higher yield per square foot, but none that could be grown with so little effort AND such a high return. When you also consider how easy it is to store winter squash for several months even without refrigeration, it becomes obvious why it is a top recommendation for any gardeners wanting to minimize their labour in the garden, keep food storage simple, and maximize their yield at the same time.
If you have winter squash varieties to recommend to your fellow gardeners, or better yet, yield per square foot data to share with us all, please leave a comment.
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@that_auntceleste5848 10 месяцев назад

Winter squash is one of my fav crops. Sadly, this year I spent all my time battling squash bugs and squash Vine borers 😢 & still almost no harvest

@LanceCarmony 10 месяцев назад

Need to get some mint around them asap

@emmettbattle5728 10 месяцев назад

same! i love love love a huge rambling squash field but for me its not low effort at all! for me first its the cucumber beetles, then the vine borers, and if anything survived then its infested with millions of squash bugs! i cant check every single leaf 50 times a day and i only use neem solution for pest management. i get at least one or two mature fruits off each plant but usually the vines die too fast! dont even get me started on squirrels and rabbits lol

@lpmoron6258 8 месяцев назад

@@emmettbattle5728 I had squash borers and had 3 squash disappear that were growing on a fence. The last 3 I covered almost every evening with a tarp fastened top and bottom to the fence. I blamed it on a member of Bambi's family. Then all my Brussels sprouts were picked over night. And I decided the only thing could have done that was a ground hog.. after that happening twice I dug them up and they are now in pots 4 feet off the ground. I did harvest 3 nice squash.

@bradleydorsett4053 8 месяцев назад

Try and get some resistant plants to vine borers! Cucuzzi has much thinner vines and they can’t/ don’t like to bore in it as much. My squash was demolished by vine borers, but they didn’t touch my Cucuzzi. Just experiment with different ones!

@thinking7667 6 месяцев назад

You got to grow vine borer resistant varieties only. This year I grew Honey Nut squash and Rampicante. It was my first year growing resistant varieties, and it was completely easy. No issues whatsoever, the borers didn’t touch them. My area also deals with cucumber, beetles and squash bugs, but the issue is the vine borers. Without damage from the vine borers, the plants are healthy enough to not really be affected by other pests. I grew non-resistant squash plants for four years before I found out about resistant varieties. I have been out there in July trying to save plants that were dying. Definitely not worth it. I will only grow resistant varieties now.

@feluxjohn3236 8 месяцев назад

You totally rock, please consider a how to gardening book for beginners, I mean infant beginners, from city to soil, buying your first bag of soil.

@weston.weston Месяц назад

I enjoy his video shorts so much!

@celeste9129 9 месяцев назад

Love your greenhouse ❤

@feluxjohn3236 8 месяцев назад

Love your trailer

@elmerreed6048 10 месяцев назад

Are Sweet Mama’s the same as Kabocha (or at least closely related)?

@owendavies8227 5 месяцев назад

They are the same species (therefore at least distantly related). There are four or so commonly grown species of squash: Curcurbita pepo, C. maxima, C moschata and C. argyosperma. Of those, both of the ones you mentioned are C. maxima. Maxima squash have some of the most variation out of all garden plants so I would expect that they aren't particularly closely related.

@bitfreedom 8 месяцев назад

AWESOME

@midwestribeye7820 6 месяцев назад

I did butternut and red kuri this year, too. Plus acorn and a light cream variety a friend gave me. I love how they last forever! If they do start to go soft, I can give them to my chickens.

@quin7117 8 месяцев назад

When your plan is to forget your garden😂 I love it

@moniquelynwone6268 9 месяцев назад

Wow! Amazing!😮❤

@voyager8187 7 месяцев назад

wowww nicee

@buffalojoe78 7 месяцев назад

Squash Vine Borer has entered the chat

@michelleh4588 8 месяцев назад

Do squash bugs not exist in your world? These plants would have been utterly demolished by July where I garden.

@bradleydorsett4053 8 месяцев назад

Said this to someone else, but try a bunch of different varieties. A lot of my squash was demolished by vine borers, but my Cucuzzi plant didn’t get touch as its vine is so thick and thin.

@lokiman2256 7 месяцев назад

Best science teacher ever!!

@knuckle12356 7 месяцев назад

Over 300 lbs of food! That's fantastic, Except for a tiny caveat; You really, REALLY gotta love squash..! I dunno that I've got the constitution for the full 330. Leverage your cache for beans, lentils, and a 🐷. 😊 I do love the no-tend aspect of your crop.

@lalizzyg07 8 месяцев назад

My winter squash got animated with vine borrers

@ThatBritishHomestead 7 месяцев назад

I just love the inter squashes

@belisarius565 8 месяцев назад

nice

@numberoneappgames 4 месяца назад

The middle one makes good pumpkin curry. 🍛🤤

@jamestomlin5525 7 месяцев назад

Won't work in texas I'm afraid, maybe you could pull those off after September

@echandler673 9 месяцев назад

Very cool greenhouse that you have. Do you have any issues with condensation?

@Rumade 9 месяцев назад

I'm so jealous of people who can plant and forget. In my garden I would plant, and slugs would murder them all overnight instantly. It's insane how many of them there are in our space. We have habitat for hedgehogs and frogs, but they dont even make a dent.

@Madamoizillion 8 месяцев назад

Do you have space for ducks? They're slug eating machines.

@gcc2313 8 месяцев назад

Beer traps? Some say they don't work but they always fill up fully when I put them. When I have slug issues.

@thewhitefalcon8539 7 месяцев назад

You won't need to start many seeds The plants compete well with weeds A day's all the time that you needs The fruits are so easy to sees

@KrazyArielle 7 месяцев назад

How do you keep all your vegetable fresh during the winter?

@janicejurgensen2122 9 месяцев назад

Do you have vine borers and squash borers? If so what do u use combat them?

@Duby4life 8 месяцев назад

What’s the proper storage method for these to make them last long enough to eat them all? (I see you laying them out in your greenhouse)

@michaelfrost2867 8 месяцев назад

Love You channel. ❤❤👍🏼👍🏼

@Emeraldwitch30 7 месяцев назад

Youve got to try honeynutt its been crossed from butter cup amd butternut. They are stable now so if you only grew them you can save seed(or be a dork like me and tape the blooms shut. Hand pollinate and tape shut again. Put a red ribbon on it if it makes a fruit and i get lots of them per plant. They are smaller than butternut and buttercup. But they are the sweetest deepest orange and creamy squash. I can always cook 2 for big family meals or one for sides when its just me and hubby. Or one just for my lunch if its just me. I even use it for pumpkin pie and my family prefer it to pumpkin from the can pies. I also love kobucha (kubocha? Sp) and sweet delicata. I grew Seminole pumpkin but havent cooked one yet. (Been sick ) but they were beautful.

@jeffmeyers3837 10 месяцев назад

@VegetableAcademy What's your plant spacing for the squash in the 30" x 50' beds?

@kamalakrsna 5 месяцев назад

I wish I could afford some land & do that

@Anumma572 7 месяцев назад

Waw

@amonratpeavy9717 8 месяцев назад

2 pumpkins this years for me,bad.😅

@CCootauco 7 месяцев назад

Damn that's a lot of Fibre.

@tamooz6649 10 месяцев назад

Any reccomendations against squash bugs?

@mardyshelton4770 10 месяцев назад

I planted 2 winter squash, they produce 2 each and start dying.

@NEMO-NEMO 3 месяца назад

Is your greenhouse your root cellar?

@natalieb.mortensen9361 8 месяцев назад

Would it be possible to include metric measurements in the subtitles? 🙏

@KayAteChef 8 месяцев назад

Just google pounds to kilograms or divide by about 2.2.

@skipradcliff 8 месяцев назад

Do you freeze any of your vegetables? I very much dislike tomatoes or any vegetable being frozen from fresh. Is there a way to combat the mushy outcome??

@rishabhsrivastava193 8 месяцев назад

What kind of fertilisers are being used on your field

@mmezias 7 месяцев назад

How in the world do you not have vine borers and squash bugs?

@petralonhin1589 8 месяцев назад

Does that count pumpkins?

@cprove5751 5 месяцев назад

How many total plants?

@ardenthebibliophile 8 месяцев назад

How on earth did you keep them contained?

@AllenProxmire 7 месяцев назад

how much of a squash do you eat tho? half that weight is compost

@georgewebmaker8000 8 месяцев назад

Can you freeze them??

@markb8954 8 месяцев назад

The nice thing about Winter Squash is that if properly stored, they will last for many many months. They would to be processed a bit to store by freezing.

@tomhuitema-tf7kd 7 месяцев назад

Thats around 68,000 calories, or a months worth of food for 1 person

@maynk7096 7 месяцев назад

Sadly monkeys attack my garden and ruin my produce and plants every month. I'd have to quit gardening in the near future.

@kamalakrsna 5 месяцев назад

Yeaaa... The mokeys ... I seen them DEMOLISH beautiful/bountiful gardens. The langurs & the small brown monkeys w/the red behinds ... farmers near Hardwar got government permission (about 15 years ago) & put out poisoned bananas THOUSANDS & got rid of aaalot of monkeys to save the crops of vegetables. It was an emergency situation -

@Madamoizillion 8 месяцев назад

1. How do you keep squirrels and crows from putting little bike marks or even eating the squash? 2. Do you save seeds from your squash or do you plant fresh every year?

@gcc2313 8 месяцев назад

If you save seed you need to do controlled pollination. Which he didn't do as he simply "forgot about it". And for F1 hybrids it's not possible. It may be simpler to just buy seeds in bulk they're quite cheap and last a few years.