George, I bet you're right, but I hate going out on a limb like that. Merton, I thought maybe I could find a comparison of the cucurbita seeds that would help you, so I checked my copy of Suzanne Ashworth's book SEED TO SEED: SEED SAVING AND GROWING TECHNIQUES FOR VEGETABLE GARDENERS and here is how she describes them: Cucurbita maxima: Thick seeds that are white or tan or brown with cream colored margins and thin cellophane coatings. (As George pointed out, your Lakota is a maxima so should fit this description.) C. moschata seeds are small, oblong and beige with a dark beige margin. (Your butternut is a moschata so one of your two solid tan types of seed ought to match this description.) C. pepo seeds are cream-colored and each has a white margin. Your acorn squash is a pepo so its seed should match this description. The problem is that your spaghetti squash is a pepo also, so its' seeds ought to match this description too. C. agyrosperma (formerly mixta) seeds would be the easiest to identify because they usually have small cracks in them. (They are described as white or tan with a pale margin and cracks in the skin coat on the flat sides of the skins which are covered with a thin cellophane covering.) None of the squash in your packet are agyrosperma types though. If you have specific variety names for your spaghetti, butternut, acorn and Lakota squashes, you probably could google and find descriptions of each squash, including the approximate size of the mature squash and that size might help you figure out which of your pepo seeds is which. Or, you might e-mail the seed company and see if they can tell you, by description only, which seed is which variety. Dawn

I hope the seeds I save will be ok - I had washed them, and left them out on a plate to dry before bagging them up. But after about a week or so, I noticed they were molding in the baggie!! I took them out and threw out the worst ones, but the others I rewashed and left them out longer this time to dry. Put them back in a baggie again, and they are doing ok - although there is still some staining from the previous bout with the mold. I'll give them a try at sprouting, but if they don't work will buy another pie pumpkin or look for some packaged seeds. I'll have to try some of the Confection and Cha Cha varieties, David! Our pumpkins this past season in general did not do as well as our first season of growing them in 2010. We only got 2 or 3, and they were small. Will try them again in 2012 and hope for a better turn out - in 2010, we had probably 20 or so (again, relatively small compared to a lot that you see in the stores, but was still fun to have that many to display for Halloween and not have to buy them :^). Marj

Posted by poisondartfrog 7a (My Page) on Thu, Oct 17, 13 at 7:37 I agree, Meta Givens is the absolute best! Totally,...and another thing, we have the movie "Superman Returns" starring Brandon Routh, with Eva Marie Saint as Martha Kent. At the start of the flick, when Supes "returns" from space after having been gone for 5 years, searching hopefully for possible survivors of his home planet's untimely demise, his crystalline spacecraft comes streaking in over the Kent farm, causing quake-like tremors before it crashes in a field. --"Yo, Cryptid, get to the freakin' point already!"-- Anyway, as the camera pans around Martha Kent's dining and kitchen area, clearly visible, next to her radio, are Meta Givens' volumes of her "Modern Encyclopedia of Cooking." - Signifying what? Nothing, really, just something I picked-up on is all. :) - One of Roy's super fave movies that he likes to watch over, and over, and over, and over, and over,...--sigh-- This post was edited by cryptid on Fri, Oct 25, 13 at 0:04

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