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Squash Crop 05
Here is a
small part of our squash field about a month ago (mid Aug.). We
actually had the
weeds down pretty well, but the late germinating stuff has taken over
now. But the squash plant growth was so great that you couldn't find
the areas between the rows. The way we plant that rarely happens. The
slight orange spots in the foreground are a few of the squash, but
trust me, you can't see most of what's out there. Just in front of the
yellow house you can see a hint of 4 rows of sunflowers. The taller
things are 2 old pear trees. The tree on the left (hard to see)
actually has squash climbing up the tree and there are 4 mature baby
hubbards in it now. The catalog calls that variety "restricted vine". I
don't think so. Or maybe it's just that everything has grown like crazy
this year.
Here is a panorama of the self-serve stand we have out in our driveway.
The camper in the background belongs to a neighbor in town that can't
keep it in his yard (city rules). For size, the tent is 12x20, the
wagon is 8x16 and the baskets in between are pallet boxes.
Here is a closer view of the wagon and pallets. Each of the pallets
hold about 20 bushels or about 2000 lbs +-. The wagon has at least 3
more pallets worth of squash on it right now. There are also about 50
bushel+ crates, like on the left of the pics, already in my
truck, just out of the pics, ready for the market.
On the far left are some of the sacks of squash that we sell as a deal
at the market. Depending on what is in them, you can get the squash for
about 1/2 or less of the piece price.
So far what you can see in the pics here is maybe 1/4th of what is in
the field. We haven't even gone into 1/2 of the rows yet picking stuff.
What's on the stand is more than we had for the whole crop last year.
Big difference between years. We didn't really do anything different
other than hubby just did a bit of hand fertilizing this year instead
of going thru with the big spreader.