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good for you: save those ribblons or whatever. It is so much fun to enter and to win. While we were still in NM our county fair was really small and I have a couple of "best of show" trophy's. I only won a couple of times in the NM state fair. Here in AR even our county fair is huge and the placing work differently. If your entre meets all the criteria you get a blue ribbon. there might be 20 given in a catagory: if it comes close it is red and so on. I thought it was dumb, not like what you just had or like NM. So I just didn't bother after the first year. I think the only time I ever entered something grown from the garden was an entire basket and it took third I think. Now enjoy your squash and remind everyone how lucky they are to be eating a squash that won a prize.
Nita
Thanks! We really lucked out this year with butternut squash - we got a whole garden of beauties. It was a toss up which one to enter - the biggest (the one I entered, which was 6 pounds) wasn't quite ripe and still a bit pale. I think that's why it only took second. We got about a dozen really nice five pounders. I'm giving some to relatives and friends and saving one for Thanksgiving. The rest, and the smaller ones, I'm storing for use this winter and selling.
I am in NH, and our garden season is winding down quickly. I'm picking at least a dozen tomatoes each day, and there are dozens of green maters still on the vine--hoping that the warm weather later this week will ripen some of them up. Anybody have a hint for fast ripening?
If anyone finds the hint for fast ripening, pls share. My plants also are loaded w/ green tomatoes. I got okra today and the uri pumpkins. Striped little bugs and possibly squash bugs bit one of them, but I'll be darned if I'm not eating it. I also got an egg from the chicken boos.
If anyone finds the hint for fast ripening, pls share. My plants also are loaded w/ green tomatoes. I got okra today and the uri pumpkins. Striped little bugs and possibly squash bugs bit one of them, but I'll be darned if I'm not eating it. I also got an egg from the chicken boos.
If it is getting towards the end of your growing season you could pull the plants up & hang them upside down from your garage rafters. They will slowly ripen but it extends your growing season and they ripen on the vine keeping the taste some what better than laying them out to ripen. If you need to leave them in the ground you are at the mercy of having lots of sunshine on them daily.
Jalapenos. Tomorrow it will be jalapenos. Same the day after. And next week. I'm giving them away!
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My plants also are loaded w/ green tomatoes. I got okra today and the uri pumpkins. Striped little bugs and possibly squash bugs bit one of them, but I'll be darned if I'm not eating it. I also got an egg from the chicken boos.
