This is kind of a loose and haphazard way of beginning the landrace squash project, but I trust the technique will more than make up for the initial disarray.

• planted in 13 Three Sisters companion mounds as part of a “lunar calendar” diagram (plus extra seed scattered wild throughout the field)
• minor amount of hand-held spray irrigation to assist with germination, but otherwise plants have depended on rainfall
• very rainy summer season, compared to typical Toronto summers over the past decade
• no babying of plants, squash will receive a dose of compost tea on Aug. 9, but otherwise the plants will have fended for themselves

Squash seed planted:

1. Butternut (EFAO Seed Swap)
2. Sugar Pumpkin (saved Crooked Farmz seeds, originally from William Dam)
3. Acorn (Crooked Farmz)
4. Fairytale Pumpkin (P. Jain)
5. Sibley Winter (Withrow Park Farmers’ Market Seed Library)
6. Flat White Boer Pumpkin (Withrow Park Farmers’ Market Seed Library)
7. Delicata (Withrow Park Farmers’ Market Seed Library)
8. Koginut (Lady Cone Hop Yard)
9. Georgia Candy Roaster Hubbard (C. Pearce)
10. Kogigu (C. Pearce)
11. Sweet Dumpling (C. Pearce)
12. Red Kuri (C. Pearce)
13. Giant Banana (R. Teitel-Payne)