Saturday, August 6, 2011

%&!^?*$ Squash

I planted butternut squash this year and was so excited to see it blossoming, thinking of all the possible ways to prepare it. I went to check on it this morning and this is what I saw:


Now, in case you're confused, here is what a butternut squash is supposed to look like:




So you can see why I'm upset. Art, always the optimist, said there's a good chance they will lengthen and pale in color, but I'm sure they won't.

The problem is that I already planted pie pumpkins on the other side of the garden. Art thinks I may have switched the plants around- and he's right, it's possible. The other squash/pumpkin plants have just started blooming, but their leaves look alarmingly similar to this 'squash' plant.

God help me if both patches are pie pumpkins. All of you know how OCD I can be (if you forget, look back to Pumpkin Madness or when I made strawberry jam last year) and you know that I will use all of those damn pie pumpkins and will have pumpkin butter and pumpkin puree coming out of my ears and ass- yes, that's a lot of pumpkin.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Linds, Don't give up yet! my pumpkins are still really green. They don't look anything like that. I have some winter squash and they are still really small. These things take time! Craig