I just tasted my first right out of the microwave....it was an epiphany. I will be growing these every year!!!!
Honey Boat Squash
Cool. What's the taste?
Can you add your comments and picture to the plantfiles, please?
I did add them and the photo but they haven't shown up yet. Taste is SO SWEET!!!! Like a cross between a sweet potato and pumpkin pie. I'm in heaven!!!
Oh, that sounds good. I love both pumpkin pie and sweet potato.
Photo is there, but no comment. If you cook another, a photo of the inside would be helpful. It is a right purty squash.
I bet it would be great with a little cinnamon!
Try mace instead of cinnamon
Where did you buy the seed and how long before maturity?
I get my seeds from the university, but here is a link where you can buy them...
http://static.naturehills.com/winterdelicatasquash/
I will have dry seeds later, but I need to make sure the seeds are totally dry.
it is also available at Baker Creek http://rareseeds.com/seeds/Squash-Winter and several other places. Developed at Oregon State, another James Bagget introduction. OSU is one of the more prolific veggie breeding programs still operating at the University level. Maybe Beth can latch onto some experimental cultivars for us.
Bagget has retired...he was very much into developing veggies the old fashioned way. The new crew is doing some gene-splicing...some of it is interesting.
Sounds like my kind of squash!
How large do the squash get and any info on the average number each plant produces?
Since I'm having one for lunch, I snapped a photo of the flesh....YUM!!!
They are 3/4 to 1.5 lbs, a small squash for two servings.
They do look delicious!! Enjoy....
Another source is Territorial Seed Company www.territorialseed.com They say it was bred at Cornell University by Molly Jahn and George Moriarty. It is described as a bush type, 4-6 ft in diameter. resistant to powdery mildew and producing 1 to 1 1/2 pound squash but doesn't say how many per plant.
Just below it on the page is one called Sweet Dumpling that is pumpkin shaped with the same outer coloring on the outside but still described as a Delicata. That one has 1/2 pound squash, just right for single servings. Maturity time estimate is 110 days, so I would have to have well started plants in order for them to have time to mature in my climate. An 80 day squash just makes it here planted from seed in the garden, or if I get volunteers.
Try your baked squash with a sprinkle of nutmeg.
That link doesn't seem to go to a Honey Boat variety
Nope that is the Cornell Bush Delicata. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/60835/ There are quite a few squash in the delicata group. The original Delicata, Sugar Loaf, Zeppelin, Pinata, etc in additions to the ones mentioned. For those who prefer the Sweet Dumpling type there is also Sweet Lightning.
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I am very fond of the Cornell Bush Delicata, so I bet I will really like the Honey Boat Delicata. In my garden the Cornell Bush Delicata isn't very productive so I will be a likely customer for Honey Boat.
I would like to know which is the most resistant to mildew.
And the best keeper.
It would be interesting to grow them side-by-side for comparison.
I tried Honey Boat a couple of years ago and baked a few for a covered dish. Boy, were they a hit! I haven't grown them next to other delicata types, but I can't see how they could be beat.