That reminded me I have the 20 inch squash from the T squash, in my fridge. I'm going to cut that up today and cook it in a skillet with some chopped up onion and a bit of butter. I don't know if the small one that started to grow will keep growing. The top part of the plant looks really bad like it's dying but the part where the new squash is, is nicely green.
It grew so well in that 13 inch barrel with the plastic tower in it, that I'll get one more barrel/tower so I'll have two plants in spring. I think I proved that T squash in a container is not going to be killed by insects and it will grow to at least ten feet long as that is what it did. It's going to produce a lot of very long squash by planting it in spring instead of when I planted it in July I think it was. I have to keep a record from now on of when I plant what, as I have so many seeds now I'll never remember every one of them and when I did what with them.
I really hope I can get a bunch of food growing and producing in spring. I think I have screwed up tomatoes enough to get it right for spring. Last year I bought tomato plants from Lowes and got tomatoes but I have to do it from seed myself and plant them right. I got the seeds to sprout but screwed up the planting of the young plants.
Oh wow! I’ve not been able to follow all garden threads here lately, so last I had heard you were still bummed out about the T Squash not producing. I’m so glad to hear the report that it IS producing satisfactorily! I had such a bad squash experience this past season, I am hoping this will salve my fractured id next spring!
What you said about tomatoes, “I think I have screwed up tomatoes enough to get it right for spring,” goes double for me too about squash AND tomatoes!
I would cut off the bad looking part at the top of the squash, and dispose of it as a precaution.
So you have finally got to eat some of that squash, and you really liked it. That is super. So glad you enjoyed it.