My Hatching room....you can barely see one of the incubators behind the ladder.....to the far left is BOXES and BOXES of spaghetti squash !
YUM, had some last night...
Spaghetti squash !
Paddy Pan for seed
green paddy pans for seed...HUGE
The hide-a-bed is no longer available.............................
This is part of the 2015 Sweet Meats harvest....these are the squash with red-orange meat & more sugar content than a pie pumpkin, and these are the squash my birds LOVE and have anthelmintic properties to boot...remember the wormy poop photos ?
From eating these squash.
You should all grow this !
I make a "volcano" and put a sprinkler in the middle. Then run a hose out, cuz after a while you cannot tell where the center is !
So 2-3 X a week I water for 10 minutes, or so.
Deer proof...and they love the compost pile...
Cutting them off the vine at the last minute...allows for lots of sugar (and they get sugar warts!) and cold nightime temps toughens the skin, and when we harvest them, we spray a bleach solution on the cut end (2 cups bleach in 1 gal water) and store with shavings , newspaper or dry grass hay/straw in between each squash so's thei skin does not touch.
They'll keep until almost fall of the next year........SO
We can have some for pumpkin pies, and more INSTEAD of sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving AND still chop open one every now & then for the birds !
OK, so I will explain why I want to hatch a clutch of eggs now...in pre-winter...in a moment.
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And anyone want sweet meat seeds, PM me, we can send then in a snail mail.
They say get a hole dug, and prep it for a few months with great compost & one Atlantic giant winner said he uses left over milk (he had a dairy) in the hole several times...then in spring, plant the seed & sprinklers....and stand back 
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