Presenting our cucumbers, err, I mean acorn squash. So here is our first harvest ever of acorn squash, another one of several unexpected pleasantries of this garden season. They are much smaller that those found in the local grocery store. Lord only knows what variety they are since I thought I was purchasing cucumbers. Once the fruit set it didn’t take many weeks for them to mature to a very dark green. The squash vines …continue reading

Mother nature in her infinite glory and inexorable determination has done the impossible, she has turned my cucumbers into acorn squash! Okay, they were mislabeled when I bought them and though I was unsure exactly what I had last week, now I have a positive ID. We’ve only ever grown summer squashes so this is another first in a season full of them. Unfortunately, the plants are succumbing to powdery mildew (in a drought, who knew?) and I fear we may not see …continue reading