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Four varieties of winter squash grace the cover of a cookbook. Enterprise photo by Amy Hubbell -
Kenneth Grant chose a large butternut squash to feed his chickens at the St. Mary Outdoor Farmers Market last week. Photo courtesy St. Mary School
Time to put the garden to bed.
Those seeds planted after the soil warmed last spring are the last thing to harvest: squash.
Well… squash and pumpkins. The genetic history of the pumpkin is so intertwined with the squash and the gourd that it’s sometimes difficult to tell them apart.
Generally speaking, a pumpkin is something you carve, a squash is something you cook, and a gourd is something…