I'm trying to do 20 minutes in the garden a day. I've always believed that if you can throw 20 minutes at something, if you do it every day, you can accomplish a great deal. I used to do piles of sewing that way, virtually everything I wore.

So I did some weeding in the still-horrid raspberry/fig bed and planted old-fashioned yellow crookneck squash [1] in an empty spot in that bed. It's the old warty variety that I really love.

In a big heap of dirt that looked promising I put Futsu Japanese winter squash [2]. John never liked winter squash until we went out to dinner once for our anniversary at a really expensive restaurant here in town (it was an anniversary gift).

It was a "prix fixe" dinner, where you sit down and food just arrives. Among the dishes was a winter squash puree. I think because the place was so expensive, he tried it. Next thing I knew he'd practically licked the plate! It turns out that he'll eat winter squash served savory but not sweet, and his favorite is Japanese squashes like the one we had that night. I always fix it for him roasted along with garlic then pureed with butter and cream. What's not to love?

We'll see if any of it comes up; the seed is from 2005! So I planted about 3 times the seed I normally would. If I get lucky, I'll move the extra seedlings to other locations or give some away.

It took closer to 45 minutes than 20 to do what I wanted to do. Now I'm pooped.

[Pictures courtesy Wikipedia [3].]

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