It's affectionately called the Ozark Mountain Potato on our homestead. It was actually developed by a friend of ours who lives in South Carolina but they gifted us one and we have been growing them ever since. One plant will produce a lot of squash and they get really big. It's very similar in taste to pie pumkins but just a bit more savory which makes it great for grilling and cooking just as is.
Our favorite way to prepare them is to halve them and fill the insides with butter, cooked burger, stuffing and top it with mozzarella cheese. Then we put it on the weber BBQ grill and add some hickory chips for smoke. YUMMY!
This year I put 4 of these plants into a back area of the garden and like always, we got an abundance of squash. We harvested them this week and we will have enough to eat on them all winter and even share a few with friends or family. It took us well over an hour to pick through and bring them all into the kitchen where Jaimie stuffed them into every nook and cranny in the house.
Our ancestors of the past would bring in their harvest and stock their homes for the winter. It's the same way for our home. We fill up all of our pantry shelves and spaces with food that we will eat on during the winter months.
It took some searching to pull some of these monsters out of the garden. The plants took over the entire section we had them planted.
These suckers are huge!
They took up all the space on the kitchen table and then some! WHAT A BOUNTY!
Jaimie looks at the camera after our hefty haul from the garden. There is a lot of dinners and pumpkin bread in our future!
If you are interested in purchasing some of these squash, we do sell the seeds at our website. You won't regret growing these!
What squash do you grow every year in your garden? Let us know in the comments below!
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Those look awesome!
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THANKS!
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was just going to say.. those suckers are HUGE! lol ...mmm pumpkin bread
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Ate some pumpkin bread today actually! YUM!
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Just ate some pumpkin bread today actually. YUM! Thanks for stopping by!
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I would like to grow a few of those next summer, how do they do in colder climates?
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It would depend how cold I guess. Unless your talking about Canada,they would probably do fine.
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What happened to videos?
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Spaghetti squash grows very well where I am but I am looking to grow something else next year as well and I deiced a few weeks ago that I wanted to grow the Ozark Mountain Potato. I have been waiting for the seeds to become available and now that I see them I will be getting some as well as some smoked salt, which I will be out of within the week!
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Shalom brother Zach and wife! I've been following your YouTube channel and website. I live in Japan. Those are AWESOME squash!! I came to Steemit because of you. Heard about it in one of your videos! Shalom-blessings!
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Pics are yummy,how does this potato taste?Does it taste yummy?
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@mericanhomestead - Are you the people who know all about eco-friendly, sanitary composting, living off grid, and finding gold on your property using your son's metal detector? Could you please adopt me?
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Here in Arkansas we have pretty good luck with crook neck, spaghetti, and butternut. May have to hit you up for some of those seeds and give it a whirl.
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I am so excited about this squash! I bought a package of seeds (amongst other goodies) while we were there and I can't wait to grow them next year!
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I love acorn squash! I always think it's tricky figuring out when squash are ready to harvest.
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I love it! Love how productive those four plants were--amazing. These are precisely the sorts of plants we're on the hunt for--plentiful producers that don't need a lot of coddling. We'll probably hit up your website for those for the spring!
In the meantime, we've been messing around with Cushaw squash on our homestead--we got one from a nearby farmer, so we are hoping that they'll grow as well on our land as his. They are pumpkin-ish as well, but I find them SO much easier to process (you can peel them raw with a potato peeler).
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Shalom Brother! I'd LOVE some seeds but I don't think Australian customs and bio-security would let them into the country. We're coming into the wet season/summer here and I've found that fruit flies sting the butternut pumpkins I'm growing. There isn't any signs of fruit fly stings on my kent pumpkins. Butternut might be a better option for us in our dry season. This year I'm trying tromboncino as it is suppose to be a very good zucchine substitute as it's less prone to fungal issues. Picked young it's tender and spiralizes a treat without having to peel the skin.
I'm also trying delicata, dumpling, golden nugget, giant pink banana, queen acorn and sugar pumpkins.
Yeah, I'm a bit of a pumpkin tragic.
I managed to find some achocha seeds here in Australia and it would seem that the jewelled sting beetles that are sap suckers really like these.
I've yet to have a single pod grow big enough to set seed let alone big enough to eat before it goes brown and shrivels on the vine.
This is another fruit that might be better left to dry season when our crazy pest pressure is less.
Blessings from my household to yours,
~D.
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