We've eaten two squashes this fall already -- one butternut squash was made into soup and I baked an acorn squash to serve with a meatloaf meal. The variety of squash available is wide and colorful. Even the little pie pumpkin on the right in this photo qualifies as a card carrying member of the squash family.
I'm saving seeds from squash this fall. I rinse them under warm running water and dry them on paper towel on the sunroom floor. Amy Goldman's wonderful book about squash, "The Compleat Squash," says the seeds are ready for storage in a freezer or frig when they snap in half.
The wire basket was made in Germany by the Ernst Dippe and Son Company. It is galvanized and can be used for gathering vegetables from the garden and hosing them off right in the basket. I ordered it from Landreth Seed Company (that's where I ordered the Goldman book from, too) a few weeks ago and am delighted with the look and quality of the basket.
One more comment. The bedraggled mum is a survivor of the winds and rains of this last week. It does look like it has been through a bit of rough weather but mums are tough. It will take more than four inches of rain and 40 mile per hour winds to close this plant down.
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Wanda Hayes Eichler
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