July 26, 2018 – Angel hair spaghetti squash
Angel
hair spaghetti squash, Cucurbita pepo,
is a smaller sized spaghetti squash with 1 to 1 ½ pound fruits perfect for
single servings. Angel Hair spaghetti
squash with a growing season of 88 days and an average yield of 14 to 15 fruits
per plant is a little dynamo in the garden!
I
planted seed directly the week of May 21st. I am at the 65 day point and they are
starting to turn yellow. Middle of June,
I had to cut the vines back seriously because they were taking over my entire
back patio even though I had given them the entire 15 x 4 foot wide vegetable
garden to romp around in. At that time,
I snipped back each vine after I saw 4 or 5 fruits starting. Again, this week, I had to snip back the
vines to keep them in check. Easily there are a couple dozen fruits.
Trust
me, they are prolific. The beautiful big
vine makes visitors ask – “What is that growing all over the place?” I love the
sheer amazement in their voices. I smile and chuckle at the non-gardening
visitors – it doesn’t take much to excite them – huge leaves, long vines and
they had not even set fruit yet.
Last
year I had ample spaghetti squash – not this smaller variety – but they were
gigantic – 15 to 20 inches long. I ended up with too many large ones. Hopefully, these small ones will store well
enough so that I can get more of a benefit out of them through the fall.
Now
will be the hard part . . .being patient waiting for the skins to turn a deep
yellow gold and hard enough to not be dented by a thumbnail before I harvest them.
I
highly suggest this variety due to the vigor and the amount of fruit per vine. Plant on wide-open spaces to grow them and
let them run all over.
I will return to the
blog and report on the flavor when I actually harvest, cook and eat one to let
you know how the flavor is.
I ordered my seeds from Johnny Selected Seeds,
below link:
