Butternuts ? Soup-ah !

 

Earlier this year we planted a butternut squash, and a pumpkins at each end of a long bed that run down from the polytunnel (ie 4 plants in total). For a long time they did nothing and, concerned at the amount of fallow soil in the centre of the bed, I planted beetroot, parsnips and fennel.  They vanished beneath a tidal wave of foliage (you can still see the fronds of fennel if you look closely)

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and, gradually, gradually, the fruit appeared.  Yesterday we gathered in 5 of the largest, to complete their ripening at home.  We think they'll make a soup-ah addition to our larder this winter

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  1. AnonymousAugust 10, 2023 at 5:20 AM

    Beware fennel it grows like a weed once established and is difficullt to erradicate and literally takes over.

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