Yes! With a little luck you too can grow trellised squash.

[JBW]

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[JBW]

Nicely done.

with a little luck in a few weeks it will be 'nicely done' on the dinner plate!

[BrianA61]

Try to say trellised squash 3 times fast. Yeah, my tongue cramped up too. Interesting looking veggie.

[JBW]

Try to say trellised squash 3 times fast. Yeah, my tongue cramped up too. Interesting looking veggie.

I can't even say it slowly three times. Actually it is just your regular pumpkin/squash. Our trouble is that we live on the east slope of a sleepy volcano so we get limited sun. To compensate we grow vertically to catch more of the sunshine.

[IzzieK]

Living near a volcano, your land must be really rich in minerals. Beautiful produce, Brian....

[JBW]

Living near a volcano, your land must be really rich in minerals. Beautiful produce, Brian....

It was but after generations of poor farming practices we have needed to rejuvenate the soil using organic compost. But once it is perked up it does give a fine bounty. Today I made a salsa with super hot peppers and oregano from the garden.

[ajohnw]

I envy you Brian. Due to lack of practice I can't eat hot stuff any more. I suspect it's down to marriage in my case and stopping eating 2 or 3 a week. Mind you it's a bit like sugar - now I don't need so much to get the same effect.

John
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[JBW]

I envy you Brian. Due to lack of practice I can't eat hot stuff any more. I suspect it's down to marriage in my case and stopping eating 2 or 3 a week. Mind you it's a bit like sugar - now I don't need so much to get the same effect.

John
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Don't envy me too much I find that if I eat the hot stuff it works best before it gets late.

[bnnrcn]

Very nice shot

[JBW]

Very nice shot

It does have a strangely right feeling to it. I could almost say it is 'tasteful'? (punning before coffee how the mighty have fallen)

[IzzieK]

John and Brian, living here in the US I missed my unusual preference for "hot chilli" based foods. Hubby like his mild. I grew two bushes of real hot red chilli last summer and had harvested quite a bit, dried them and grinded them in the food processor, now I have chilli to use for 10 years at least..

[JBW]

John and Brian, living here in the US I missed my unusual preference for "hot chilli" based foods. Hubby like his mild. I grew two bushes of real hot red chilli last summer and had harvested quite a bit, dried them and grinded them in the food processor, now I have chilli to use for 10 years at least..

Sounds like a good plan to me!

[JBW]

John and Brian, living here in the US I missed my unusual preference for "hot chilli" based foods. Hubby like his mild. I grew two bushes of real hot red chilli last summer and had harvested quite a bit, dried them and grinded them in the food processor, now I have chilli to use for 10 years at least..

Sounds like a good plan to me!

[ajohnw]

John and Brian, living here in the US I missed my unusual preference for "hot chilli" based foods. Hubby like his mild. I grew two bushes of real hot red chilli last summer and had harvested quite a bit, dried them and grinded them in the food processor, now I have chilli to use for 10 years at least..

I decided I really had fallen in love with my wife over a rather hot indian curry Izzie. She sat there and gamely ate the lot. There were "other" factors but that clinched it. I proposed a few days later in a pub.

These days I prefer short hot treats rather than prolonged hot meals. Certain nuts coated with some green oriental stuff who's name I can't recall that eaten neat will blow peoples sinuses. Olives stuffed with chilli etc, even pickled chillies if there are any about.

From a fictional book I am currently reading it seems the green stuff is really meant for spicing up soy source but only in small quantities. I have tried it neat on sushi but the experience is way way over the top. The fumes off it in the mouth even attack my nostrils - and everybody else's I expect as few go even near it.

John
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[IzzieK]

John...I was telling your story to my husband awhile ago on the way to my eye surgeon's appointment and he laughed his head off. Then he asked "What's a pub? why haven't you taken me to one?" -- if I wasn't strapped in the car, I would have fell down....LOL