It's my first year growing butternut squashes and cobnuts and I
thought that it was all going really well until this week. When I
took a look at the squashes around half of them have split skins.
They don't seem to be rotten but I'm not sure if they are ok to eat.
It's seems such a shame to throw them out but can I still use them?

Cheers,
Andy

"Andy" wrote ...
It's my first year growing butternut squashes and cobnuts and I
thought that it was all going really well until this week. When I
took a look at the squashes around half of them have split skins.
They don't seem to be rotten but I'm not sure if they are ok to eat.
It's seems such a shame to throw them out but can I still use them?

OK to eat and that sort of problem is usually caused by a dry spell followed
by rain. My understanding is that the inside grow again after the outside
has stopped.
If the split has hardened off (made a new skin) then they should keep.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

I can't tell you how glad I am you said that! Looking at the splits
they look like they have healed over and hardened off so I was hoping
everything would be ok.

Your theory about the dry spell followed by a wet spell sounds correct
to me too, I think you can get similar problems with spuds.


Thanks again, I'm off to make some nice butternut soup!

Cheers
Andy

"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Andy" wrote ...
It's my first year growing butternut squashes and cobnuts and I
thought that it was all going really well until this week. When I
took a look at the squashes around half of them have split skins.
They don't seem to be rotten but I'm not sure if they are ok to eat.
It's seems such a shame to throw them out but can I still use them?

OK to eat and that sort of problem is usually caused by a dry spell
followed by rain. My understanding is that the inside grow again after the
outside has stopped.
If the split has hardened off (made a new skin) then they should keep.

--

This is what happened to some of our squashes after 7 weeks without rain
were followed by just 9mm rain. -

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...w/P1010058.jpg

Steve

"shazzbat" wrote in message
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This is what happened to some of our squashes after 7 weeks without rain
were followed by just 9mm rain. -

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...w/P1010058.jpg


Hey I like the horseshoe tower.

Mike

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:34:45 +0100, Muddymike wrote
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"shazzbat" wrote in message
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This is what happened to some of our squashes after 7 weeks without rain
were followed by just 9mm rain. -

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...%20we%20grew/P
1010058.jpg


Hey I like the horseshoe tower.


[Searches for it ...]
So do I - but how did you prise the horses off first?



--
Sally in Shropshire, UK
Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church with conservation
churchyard:
http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk

"Andy" wrote in message
oups.com...
It's my first year growing butternut squashes and cobnuts and I
thought that it was all going really well until this week. When I
took a look at the squashes around half of them have split skins.
They don't seem to be rotten but I'm not sure if they are ok to eat.
It's seems such a shame to throw them out but can I still use them?

I didn't know cobnuts had skins.

You learn something new every day!


Cheers,
Andy

"Muddymike" wrote in message
om...

"shazzbat" wrote in message
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This is what happened to some of our squashes after 7 weeks without rain
were followed by just 9mm rain. -

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...w/P1010058.jpg


Hey I like the horseshoe tower.

Thanks. It looked good covered in sweet peas in summer. It was a pig to
paint though.

Steve