2/ Elsewhere, welcome harvest news around our collaboration with the Food Bank Farm in Snohomish, WA (a project supported by the Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross) who are raising seed on 1053 plants of 'Stella Blue' winter squash this summer season. That's a whole lotta seed!
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Copy of FB message, showing photo of harvested Stella Blue winter squash in hand, with text: ‘Excellent early ripening. I thought it would be 120 days. 92 days from germination. Probably could have harvested first ones last week for an 85 day squash. Very impressive. Also a good size.’
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Copy of FB message, showing photo of harvested Stella Blue on dinner plate, with remark, ‘Good eating, too.’
Huge shoes to fill, but with seedsman Steve Peters' recent retirement, we thought we'd try taking on one of his long-time charges, Stella Blue winter squash, a wonderfully delicious, baby-blue Hubbard type with slate gray skin and deep orange, smooth flesh.facebook.com/share/p/mbUht7y7QrWqg6J2/?mibextid=K35XfP
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