Anyone seen this yet? I am just getting tiny baby squash and pumpkins on. Zuchinni is about two inches long with several more set on.

Reid, mine are just starting as well -- have a couple of baby golden zucchini and some mini pumpkins showing up. Now if they just get pollinated... might attempt to give them a helping hand to make sure!

Sandy, I want to help them out too, but male and female flowers haven't opened together yet.

Anderwood said:Sandy, I want to help them out too, but male and female flowers haven't opened together yet.

Unfortunately that seems to be the problem early in the season!

Here is how my butternuts turned out I have several this size.



It has been in the 70s almost all week, so zuchinni and butternuts are still coming.

That looks like a huge Butternut, Reid -- nice! Our temps haven't hit 70 in a while, today we didn't even make it to 60 But, so far no frost -- and it looks like at least the coming week won't see one either, so I won't complain.

I have butternut squash growing on an arch-shaped trellis, along with a bunch of gourd plants -- some of them are pretty large for acorns, I need to pick one to try one of these days soon. And really need to bring in some of the green tomatoes, there are still so many on the plants and they just aren't ripening with the chilly temps and I don't want to wait until they get damaged by the cold !

We are really lucking out on the weather. Temps are forecasted in te 70s for the next ten days, but we will see if it holds. My tomatoes have pretty much stopped now. I have a few small green ones on. I have volunteer pumpkins that could use a lot more time, so I'm excited about the weather.

70s ?? I'm excited to have mid to high 60s !

Is it possible to leave winter squash on to long during growing season?

I have grown them for decades but this is the first year the vines have leaves that stand straight up, some over three feet and make the area where the plants, four, were first planted a dark jungle.
I do not walk through it as it is thick and I do not want to wreck very healthy plants.
During high sun I can see there are some squash in there that have probably been the for quite some time.

Normally you can see the fruit while standing back ten fifteen feet but not this year.

It sounds like your plants are really happy, RpR.

My winter squash never seem to be ready to harvest until October -- but it might depend on the variety -- ?