Continuing the Hokkaido squash thread ⬆️🧵... yesterday 27-7 was another plant-roaster afternoon, with 40 deg C dry breeze, carrying wildfire smoke with it, perhaps from as far as Madrid. Some of the plants are hanging in, even putting out new shoots from closer to base but the long runners are dying back. There's even a very fast volunteer on the compost heap determined to make some late fruit. I cut one of a "clutch" of fruit which were making quite a sag in the tunnel polythene, about a metre out. 1.2 kg and about 20 cm dia. It was ripe and delicious! SO delicious, all gone in 2 meals today, inc some of the seeds which I cooked in situ. A 90% garden food day today, in fact. Passata from a 2 days ago, courgette, the squash, strawberries, herbs. Just bought-in peanut butter, olive oil and butter. Good energy day, which I'm attributing to this, despite more heat. That 50-ish kg of will get eaten very quickly. #growYourOwn #gardening #squash #aborboro