The Balmoral Movement

For post #3, I'm going to give an overview of one of the best producing plants I grew this year. I only say one because I have very high expectations for my sweet taters.

My Balmoral was planted from seed by my aunt and transplanted. We planted this along side my herb garden. The picture above shows it as it was blooming for the first time. For scaling purposes, I believe that is a 3-inch plastic pot on the right side. These two plants got HUGE. Their leaves were the sizes of basketballs. 

The first fruit! Here it is.....

I paid particular attention to this one and watched it like a hawk. Here is another picture around the time I picked it.

After I picked it, I ended up sauteed it with some onion and other spices. But here is a picture as I cut into it.

 

It was very exciting to watch this plant grown and be so successful. Below are several pictures of different squash taken from the plant. This is not all of them. I just did not take pictures of all of them. As I sit here, I am looking at the plants, and they are overrun with grass and slowly dying out. It is unfortunate, but I definitely plan to plant more next year. My uncle mentioned that he enjoys stuffed squash. After saying that, I think this would be a great species of squash for stuffing. Plans for next year already, I guess.

Enjoy!