Late summer is the time of bounty. And I am harvesting beautiful zucchini and delicious tomatoes. They have been my best performers so far. But the Galeux d'eysines are coming!
"C. maxima 105 days. An elegant French heirloom with an appropriately elegant sounding name. Magnifique! This stunning squash has beautiful salmon-peach colored skin covered with peanut shell-like warts caused by sugar in the skin. Traditionally used in France for soups and sauces, when cooked, the sweet, orange flesh is as smooth as velvet. Each flattened squash weighs 10-15 pounds and can store for up to 6 months. Definitely a show stopper in the garden or on the table."
But, and isn't there always a "but"? My busy season at work is late June to early August so the garden can suffer. The garden is my sanity and sanctuary during this time but hot days, cooler nights and watering don't always sync up.
Take the Galeux d'eysines; I have five beautiful squash. I really have enough for my family of two but hoped for enough to give away. The vines grew long and lush enough to support ten. I had ten tiny ones once but the watering inconsistencies brought me down to the five. Alas, I'm not going to be giving away a lot of gorgeous warty squash.
Writing of warts, the first are coming on board.
The zucchini are very happy but I have two different varieties from the same packet. They are similar, and they are similar to the plants of latter summers. But they are different. The variablility of heirlooms? The crap shoot of open pollination? Now, these are delicious. Some of the most delicious zucchini ever. This one is prolific. This squash, although almost a foot long, is just perfect tender with almost no seeds yet.
And this is the sister plant. Less prolific, smaller overall, fruit not as lengthy or dark, and the leaves themselves are more flat and smaller.
No matter. I will probably be growing these again next year, they taste so wonderful.
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