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A new variation on Vegetable Spaghetti(T&M). We ate the first one yesterday, rather small but interesting taste. Anyone with experience care to report their findings.

Dear Allen,
tried them last year but I did not care for them and have gone back to stripetti pajamas (fothergills?) which I had grown in previous years. They did not keep for as long as the sp's did either.
Regards Sally Wright.

Is stripetti pajamas a veg spag type sally?

Dear Allen,
yes it is. I find it less watery and a better flavour than the normal veg spag and tivoli types. Perhaps not quite as spaghettish but it is very tasty. Good yielder too.
Regards Sally Wright.

It's listed (fothergill)as squash spaghetti pyjamas. I'll try next year. Meanwhile I will see what other similar are around. Fortunately we also have a batch of vegetable spaghetties for this year's sales. They are very popular among the cogniscenti (voc."those that know")

Quote from website

"If you want a more picturesque squash, then consider the Vegetable Spaghetti kind. This will grow long vines that can wrap around any trellis or fence, adding to the rustic beauty of your backyard. The Vegetable Spaghetti produces heavy fruits weighing anywhere from two to four pounds. If you decide on this squash, remember you also have to support the fruit with slings made from old pantyhose. Vegetable Spaghetti is a creamy yellow color, usually reaching its; harvest within a three month time span. Looking for a more nutritious squash (although all of them are chock full of vitamins)? Then try growing “Hasta La Pasta” s which are rich in Vitamin A. They are smaller than the other types and are a bright orange in appearance. Whatever kind you decide on must be planted in a warm, sunny location with well drained soil. The dirt should also be slightly acidic with a pH between 5.5 and 7.0. Do a soil test before planting if you’re not sure."

I still like the description of colour and the vitamin A is of some consequence It makes sense to grow both.

Allan

I wanted to try Hasta this year but was late ordering and they were out of stock! Will get an order in earlier this time. Ordinary Veg Spag are nice, but need a lot of butter and sauce - hoping that pyjamas and hasta will be more interesting in their own right

The later ones are turning out considerably better size, It's earlier than the other cucurbits, seconded by Turks Turban and 1 long green trailing marrow. Butternut Sprinter has yet to sprint.
If anybody hasn't realised it yet, the name should be Hasta la Pasta.
Allan

Oh dear,the web site committed the unpardonable crime of calling soil 'dirt'. One of the first things I was told in the growing game was that soil was what you grew in,dirt was what you got round your shirt collar!
The squashes sound interesting though,I've never tried the spagetti ones,perhaps next year I'll give them a go.

When we sell vegetable spaghetties we attach a label giving method of cooking as many people still don't know.It is as follows:-
Delicious low-calorie vegetable. Use in place of Pasta
Cook whole or as large a portion as fiits your saucepan. Boil approx. 20 minutes, steam for 30 minutes, pressure-cook @15 lbs pressure for 6-10 minutes or microwave on High for 4 minutes per pound//500 gms, turning at half time. When cooked, remove seeds and with a fork tease out the flesh

Many years ago when we were growing vegetable spaghetties there was a paragraph in the local paper about somebody had found out how to grow spaghetti and we were able to say that it was nothing new and provided a picture of ours growing.
You may be old enough to remember Richard Dimbleby's April 1st spoof about the spaghetti harvest.
Allan

I have been researching several matters
First, the name
I tried to get a literal translation and the best I can do is to find that there isn't one. It is one of those colloquial fun-names, originally derived from people mis-using the phrase Hasta La Vista which is roughly Au Revoir in French, or our See You Later or the real meaning of Goodbye which is God be with you until we meet again. In the case of our subject it seems more appropriate to say ...la Pasta as it refers to the similarity with pasta as spaghetti.

There are quite a lot of businesses trading under the name which makes Googling hard work with irrelevances.

On cooking instructions, the method is similar to vegetable spaghetti but the 20 minutes boil becomes rather shorter, one source says 5 minutes.

It certainly beats even Butternut sprinter in earliness on our trials, even the marrows are now cutting with signs of flowers to come on the butternuts.
Allan