HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
SQUASHES— WHEN TO GATHER AND HOW TO 
STORE FRUITS 
P ROPERLY 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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