Safe to eat?

[bethduckie]

On inspection today I noticed one of my butternut squashes had gone all shrivelly and yellow at the top. So I hoiked it off the vine lest it infected anything else. I was not a happy bunny.

What I would like to know is, if I cut the shrivelly bit off, will the rest of it still be OK to eat? It's looking pretty sound other than that. It's still resolutely green mind, but I read that you can eat unripened butternuts, they just don't taste so butternutty. But I thought in a soup it might be ok.

What do you reckon? I'm loathe to throw it out, especially if any of the others decide to follow suit... I haven't got many and I am blooming well determined to have a butternut squash make it till picking time...

[Thelma Sanders]

tis safe to eat...whether it will taste of anything much is a different question

[northepaul]

I would try it in soup too

[bethduckie]

That's Ok Thelma, I'll use it as a base for something spicy. It's soup weather at the moment anyway!

Oh, I was cross when I saw it... grrr. It's only the 'neck' bit, the rest of it is ok, and I have another squash that we accidentally knocked off the vine (trying to put sacking underneath the fruits to prevent them rotting- clearly hasn't worked!) that I'm attempting to ripen with a banana, we're on the second banana now with no discernible change in the squash lol.

Hopefully the others should be ok. Should I spray them with something?? (see my organic principles becoming rapidly compromised when it comes to my beloved and cossetted butternuts...)

[Thelma Sanders]

I think it's just the rotten weather