HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 



SQUASHES WHEN TO GATHER AND HOW TO 

 STORE FRUITS 



PROPERLY harvested and stored squashes will 

 * keep until May or June of the following year if 

 attention is paid to careful handling. Fruits should be 

 gathered soon after the first light frosts kill the foliage 

 and before hard frosts threaten to injure the squashes. 



Handle them carefully! Cut them from the vines, 

 leaving a good piece of stem end on each fruit. When 

 loading wagon or wheelbarrow, place them carefully on 

 top of each other don't throw them. The best place to 

 keep them is a light, airy room with an average tempera- 

 ture of about fifty degrees. Frequently the attic of 

 the home makes an admirable storage place if frost can 

 be kept out by keeping the attic door open. 



On the farm squashes may be stored in barns or airy 

 cellars, on straw, on the floor, in bins or in barrels, the 

 same as pumpkins. 



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