How to Grow Butternut Squash and Other Tales from a Kitchen Garden
The life of the Kitchen Gardener is never dull - well certainly not this one anyway.
Whilst I heartily recommend the growing of one’s own vegetables to one and all don’t let the above statement lead you astray.
If you are one of life’s thrill seekers who live on the edge then don’t sell your snowboard to buy a trowel !
Despite being visually untouched by the ageing process ( 
) I wonder whether my satisfaction when taking in that wondrous vista that is The Goldeneye Grounds is a sign of age !
Mirabile Visu springs straight to my classically untrained mind and a sense of calm, tranquillity and quiet satisfaction descends around your host.
Whether this works in the ‘real world’ I don’t know - possibly it’s just something that happens in that rarefied little bubble that goes under the heading ‘My Life’.
Anyhoo, those tuning to see how to grow butternut squash will be thinking, and quite rightly, what’s all this nonsense ?
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I turn my dial so it points towards vegetable growing guides and get some self-styled armchair philosopher lost in his own thoughts - and despite being his own thoughts he insists on inflicting them upon us !
Absolutely ! - Quite Right !
Duly chastised I’ll proceed in a manner suggested by the title.
Well I feel, without wishing to sound big-headed though inevitably I do, I would be better placed to wonder how not to grow butternut squash.
I simply planted the seeds, lovingly cared for them, kept the slugs at bay during the early days and bingo - they’re everywhere.
I have to say I was a little unprepared for the spread of the plants - as I will be for the crop that looks as though I’m going to harvest !
You don’t get many of those to the pound !
I shall be experimenting with soup I suspect - certainly so after the success of my impromptu courgette soup - more of which in another post ( I don’t want to spoil you)
I trust if you’re trying to grow something it’s going well, unless of course it’s facial hair which applies to both men and women 
or indeed men trying to grow anything that requires pills bought off the internet, or indeed (to oversue the word indeed yet again) women attempting to grow anything that involves applying cream - they won’t get any bigger (unlike my cucurbita moschata !
I may have another of the fabled Goldeneye Garden Open Days when I open the grounds to the public so if you want to squeeze my veg let me know !
Regards
Rod
WoE said,
August 27, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
Rod,
The Witches are full of envy at the sight of your butternuts….. ours are embryonic by comparison. The Coven veg patch has been overtaken by these plants whose greenery is growing by at least a foot a day (slight exaggeration but fellow growers will understand, any bigger and we’re talking Jack and the Beanstalk scenario). What we can say with complete confidence is that this type of squash is relatively expensive to buy in the shops and baked in a little olive oil in the oven, is delicious. Our natural seasonal barometer tells us that it’s probably time to panic and give up on this year’s crop unless something big happens over the next couple of weeks
To end on a high, we had our first home grown fig of the year which must have escaped the notice of passing vultures
WoE
p.s. if your success in the squash department doesn’t tempt an inquisitive hot chick, then there’s no justice
Rod said,
August 27, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
WoE
there are going to be loads of them as well !
Short answer as I am playing with my new toy
This comment being written using a new mini laptop and mobile broadband connection
How’s that Craig !
Best
Rod
Little Brother said,
August 27, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
Rod,
That’s a new butternut on me! Good work tho’.
Let me know if the ‘neck’ becomes longer and the skin takes on a golden hue.
LB
Rod said,
August 27, 2008 @ 9:58 pm
LB
I was beginning to wonder myself - looking more marrow like ?
Little Brother said,
August 27, 2008 @ 10:35 pm
Rod,
It’s almost like a gourd to be honest, it needs to start changing colour pretty quick to convince me!
LB