Love butternut squash: in chili, soups and stuffings and roasted all by itself (with a little olive oil or sage butter). I didn’t grow any last year because I wanted to see if the zuchetta was any good as a winter squash. In my opinion, it wasn’t, so this year I made sure I had room in the garden for butternut squash. I started 4 plants the first week of June, but the vines have overrun the raised bed and grown into such a crazy mess, I don’t know if I still have four or not. Yesterday (August 1) my husband took a weed whacker to the very tall grass and weeds that had grown in between my raised beds while I frantically tried to pull the vines out of harm’s way. Some of the vines look a little dinged up, but I think they’ll be okay.
There are seven fruits currently growing, I hope I get at least twelve for the season.
