Whilst I've been busy clearing out the clutter from the shop and yard, the garden pays no attention and refuses to stop growing.
On a lark I planted a row of italian summer squash, named "Trombetta di Albenga". Albenga is a picturesque little part of northern Italy, it would seem, where these extraordinary squash do grow, to prodigious size along with, well, suggestive forms.
Here's one that I spotted today after dealing with shredding and chipping some trees my neighbor and I felled on the property line... The wires in the fence support are exactly six inches across, by the way...
By the way, the taste is mild. It's supposed to taste like artichoke, but it doesn't seem that way to me. Maybe I'm picking them too soon, but the seed package says to pick at 10 to 12 inches... In any case, they are good, but I prefer the more nutty flavor of the Romanesque Italian variety...
On a lark I planted a row of italian summer squash, named "Trombetta di Albenga". Albenga is a picturesque little part of northern Italy, it would seem, where these extraordinary squash do grow, to prodigious size along with, well, suggestive forms.
Here's one that I spotted today after dealing with shredding and chipping some trees my neighbor and I felled on the property line... The wires in the fence support are exactly six inches across, by the way...
By the way, the taste is mild. It's supposed to taste like artichoke, but it doesn't seem that way to me. Maybe I'm picking them too soon, but the seed package says to pick at 10 to 12 inches... In any case, they are good, but I prefer the more nutty flavor of the Romanesque Italian variety...
