Just popping on to hark the herald for Spaghetti Squash...one little dude I grew in September lasted all winter in my basement which is definitely not root cellar quality, just ate it last night and it was still good!!!
I like a good spaghetti squash better than spaghetti. I also love food staples that can be preserved in cool storage without much preparation, always such a big win.
Another example of the superior quality of home grown vine ripened food!
My butternut squashes store very well too, only the very top inch is starting to dry up a bit inside. When I bought one from the big box store for comparison back in April, almost the entire neck was exhaused and spongy. I didn't take pictures of that squash but I don't feel like wasting money buying another as I still have dozens in storage.
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Butternut squash after 9 months in storage at rm mostly solid
I have a crate under a table in the kitchen with ~5 spaghetti squash that I harvested in fall of '22. I should crack one open to see if they're edible. They haven't turned to soup and leaked out onto the floor the way maxima squash do when they go bad.
Mine do pretty good until the very end of winter, very early part of spring. I notice that when they do go bad finally, I can cut one open and the seeds will actually be sprouting inside the squash.
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