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Assuming no frost, the production will slow, but all four of the tromboncino’s offerings will be available: Four? Summer squash and winter squash count as two. The flowers are enormous, and flowers are edible raw or as a tempura. Offering #4, probably ready within the squash harvested in August: Seeds. Seeds of many squash areContinue reading “October plenty”

Back in August, these aggressive vines were producing too many summer squash to handle. Some grew to maturity, some two metres, some less. As their shell hardened in the sun, and as August became December, some were eaten. The remaining squash remain intact until when? Some have been dormant, and edible, for six months. TheContinue reading “The March tromboncino”

I trumpet its virtues: These are monsters stored for winter and none have shown signs of sagging. The secret is a tough outer skin, nature’s way of saving the seed for the warm soil of summer. Cut off a foot- long chunk of seedless squash, peel and cook. The remainder will self -heal.

Although this climbing squash will thrive on the ground if given space, your baby tromboncino will need 4 meters (12 feet) of climbing space to thrive. It will keep growing until frost, and is more or less immune to the pests of zucchini, such as powdery mildew. Growing space can be horizontal or vertical, butContinue reading “The August Tromboncino”