Squashing expectations

I have already realised that we grew far too many courgettes this year (although we’re yet to throw any away, we just keep pressing them on people). But I didn’t realise that our summer squashes might follow suit. I used to grow pumpkins up trellises in London because I had no space – vertical growing was the only way.
But because I was constricting the plants, we didn’t get much of a harvest and this year has been a real learning curve in more ways than one. I’ve just let the summer squash burst out of their raised beds and creep wherever they please and the harvest so far has been stupendous, and there are still more baby squash than I can count on the vines. We’ve grown Crown Prince again (we really liked it last year) and some Red Kuri onion squash, many of which was somewhat overgrown. The Munchkin Pumpkins don’t appear to have done too well, we’ve yet to find any fruits so perhaps they weren’t pollinated properly. But lesson learned, I think if we grow three beds of squash but add in a few pumpkins too next year, we can probably produce enough to keep ourselves going for a few months!We’ve got the squashed drying in the poly tunnel at the moment, another week and we can try the first one. We can’t wait! I worry the onion squash will be a bit tasteless as I’ve let them get too big, I’ll be harvesting them much earlier in the future!