Well, the squash bed is sure getting interesting.. so as you know the original bed started out at 700 square feet, this was a full round bale rolled down and then hills made, it filled it and continued to spread.. so we mowed two on one side and three on the other side right to the tree’s on both sides of the bed.. it contined to grow and fill that space.. now in the first week of aug, we are at the tree lines.. On the left, you have two lines of different tree’s and fruiting bushes and canes, along with ground covers.. and on the right side, you have spruce, fruit tree’s, fruiting bushes and herbs..
Well, the squash has on the right, in some case run right through the tree rows and come out the other side on the top of the ditch hill.
on the left side, it continues to grow into the ground cover and it also is climbing trees..
The first produced winter squash are already huge, a lot of them are already over a foot in length and some are upward of eight inches across already, with dozen and dozens of small ones ranging from itty bitty to the size of many hand already forming,
we have not had hard good rain in a week and I have been keeping a close eye on the plants so far, they are hold very well, but I will give a deep watering this weekend and then hope for rain over the next ten days..
How is your squash coming this year?
Just another Day on the Farm 
Wow farm gal! You are going to need a pile of squash recipes. Butternut squash is my favorite squash. Are you frying some of the squash blossoms?
Some of the squashs will be used for canning and drying but most of it being grown for human use will be held for months and will be used thoughtout the winter, often using the last of them in the spring but a fair number of those being grown will be used as feed for the livestock animals as well. I like to finish the lambs with a mix of farm grown fodder instead of on grain.
Actually it is kind of ironic because squash is hard to grow in our climate since we have a 10-week growing season, so normally my squash attempts are for not. But this year we had the soil issues which ruined almost everything and yet my squash is doing amazing! They are still really tiny but I am hopeful they will make it before the first hard frost.
My goodness. That is the first time I’ve ever seen blossoms on a conifer! Can they support the heavy squash?
yes, they can, you just need to give a little extra support, if it gets a bit bigger, I will help tie it to the branch wrapped in a nylon knee high 🙂 won’t that be a sight LOL