Well, what a revelation this year has been. In a couple of weeks time we will have had our plot for a year. This is the first allotment we have had for several decades, having taken to growing on our own land. When we moved out of London, back in June 2019, the first thing we did was to put our name down for an allotment. We had not realised how insular we had become by not being part of the wider growing community.
Many things had changed since we last had an allotment and one of those was that people were growing all sorts of things we had never tried before. One of which are squashes. At the end of the season we were given several squashes by other plot holders to try... Now we are hooked on them. My wife and I both cook and have spent a lot of time dreaming up different ways of using them, but our favourite ways, to date, are to use them are as soup or stuffed with meat and/or other vegetables, and baked.
This year we are planning to grow lots of our own starting off with butternut squash planted at the ends of our first early potatoes, so they can take the space freed up as the potatoes are lifted.
Other squash and pumpkin are also in the plan. Not having grown any before, this year will be an experiment, not only with our growing methods, but also on what varieties we like. We are looking forward to an interesting year.
Ralph.
