All my life I thought that if you want to make spaghetti you start with those bags of extruded things sold in little bags from your local store. Then when I walked down the Walmart produce aisle I saw Spaghetti Squash. Who knew that spaghetti actually grows on a vine. Just joking a little. My daughter uses the squash to make spaghetti frequently and it is pretty good. I’m planning to try something different like a stir fry or patties. I’m really trying to decide if I like SS well enough to devote space in my garden to grow them. As I was cleaning out the cavity all those seeds popped out. Seeds are inexpensive but I washed and saved the seeds for planting a little later. Do you ever save seeds from fruits and vegetables for planting?
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yes peppers, heirloom from Romania.
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I started growing spaghetti squash from seeds saved out of a grocery store purchase.
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I did the same with a butternut squash and I got an asortment of squash shaped like butternut to pumpkins from the resulting vines. They are all very tasty.
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I had a volunteer squash pop up by the back porch last year. Ran all over the back yard, made 17 five to seven pound squash that looked like Delicata, but were evidently a hybrid with Spaghetti squash… both were grown near one another the previous year.
You need a hatchet or chainsaw to cut the shell, flesh is kind of, but not totally, stringy like spaghetti squash with similar flavor. My wife doesn’t care for it, so when I cook one, it takes me 4-5 meals to eat a whole one.
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Help. My spaghetti squash suddenly looks like it’s dying. I’ve checked for borers and while I found a small opening and smashed around in there with a pointy stick, I’m not sure it was a borer. I buried the base of the vine under a few more inches of soil to help it heal from the trauma (though I usually don’t do this, the vine is so narrow). This is the only vining trellis plant that is really rebounded and making fruit after the birds decimated all early fruit eating the blossoms of everything. I can’t Bear it dying!
The healthier looking vines are luffa . I’ve never had a squash just up and full plant wilt like this.
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My vine also died. I didn’t try to plant them again.
Sad. It was either the borer or me trying to kill the borer. Such a bummer. New plan next year: I’m going to start backup seedlings 6/1 for anything killed by borer. I also pulled a summer squash yesterday. I’ll have enough time left planting now to regrow it. I have a bunch of copper mesh as the constant spring rain had me concerned about slugs…I might seed of wrapping the stems helps. Or maybe the moth:bug just lays egg on it and the worm crawls through the tiny holes to the stem? Aluminum foil seems like a great way to cook the vine.
I might also just plant Curcubita moshata. My Thai kang kobs are the only clean plants. (No borer)
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Just an update, the vine which was entirely wilted and truly appeared dead by evening yesterday, looked 75% alive this morning, but is wilting as the sun and heat rise. I think it will be a race to see if it can heal/reroot from the portion that was damaged and I buried before the sun wins. Maybe cloudy day tomorrow will help. All a guess. I have a tiny bit of hope.
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