2020 Tromba Competition

[veggiechicken]

Right, the gloves are off.
Time to find my seeds and join you Sp.

[Thelma Sanders]

Still a bit too early for here, but I'll catch you later

[PyreneesPlot]

Can I play? I'm due to sow them this week.
Like a proper pillock I let them climb over a flimsy metal arch already bending under sweet peas and morning glories. Carnage when we had a massive thunderstorm and the lot blew into a heap of smashed vegetation and twisted metal. And still they kept growing ..

[veggiechicken]

Of course you can play PP

All the more the sillier!!

[SarrissUK]

I won't sow mine for a while yet... not enough space for them, but it won't be long! Let's hope for a better year for them than last

[smallblueplanet]

We grew some last year, didn't realise they kept like winter squash until we saw this video. I don't speak French but I can see how big this chap has grown them!

[SarrissUK]

I prefer them smaller and definitely best while they are lime green in colour. If you store them, they go yellow and orange in colour inside. At that stage they are very sweet, almost like melon and I really don't like it in food. I won't store any at all this year if I'm lucky enough to get any

[smallblueplanet]

I prefer them smaller and definitely best while they are lime green in colour. If you store them, they go yellow and orange in colour inside. At that stage they are very sweet, almost like melon ...

I can't say ours tasted like that at all, and we kept it over winter. I too dislike winter squash that taste sweet. Ours didn't taste sweet, more like a butternut.

[Ms-T]

The seeds are in.....got two under the stairs still .

[SarrissUK]

I can't say ours tasted like that at all, and we kept it over winter. I too dislike winter squash that taste sweet. Ours didn't taste sweet, more like a butternut.

Interesting! It was tromba d'albenga that I gre that year, and I saved a handful really large ones. I'll see if I can find a photo.
It might be I need to look for a different variety maybe. What do you think?

[smallblueplanet]

Interesting! It was tromba d'albenga that I gre that year, and I saved a handful really large ones. I'll see if I can find a photo.
It might be I need to look for a different variety maybe. What do you think?

I'm not really sure what the difference is between squash varieties, is it just the 'given' name? Tromba de Albenga, Trombetta D'Albenga, Tromboncino Albenga... or variations.

Are Sicilian Snakes the same? Zucchetta Serpente di Sicilia - Serpent of Sicily?

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[veggiechicken]

I'm not really sure what the difference is between squash varieties, is it just the 'given' name? Tromba de Albenga, Trombetta D'Albenga, Tromboncino Albenga... or variations.

I think that their provenance is Albenga, Italy whilst Serpente di Sicilia is from Sicily.
............don't ask me about French beans or Brussels sprouts.

[rary]

I think that their provenance is Albenga, Italy whilst Serpente di Sicilia is from Sicily.
............don't ask me about French beans or Brussels sprouts.

Why, do they come from Italy as well

[PyreneesPlot]

I grow them both for picking tiny and for keeping. I like the dense texture & nutty flavour and don't find it too sweet. They keep pretty well, although perhaps not as well as crown prince or butternuts.
The rounds from the non-seed end are the perfect size for cooking like fondant potato, one per (greedy) person.

[smallblueplanet]

I think that their provenance is Albenga, Italy whilst Serpente di Sicilia is from Sicily...

Lol. Yeah but you know they don't look so different, but then I'm not Sicilian