fox wild grapes are for the south. they dont grow up here. how ever we have wild grapes up here with long vines and they really produce. the flavor is a strong grape flavor and very good. the wild plums are the common northern type, the canadian type and the small tart texas type. they are all full on the trees this year and will make good jelly. six years ago i visited the home stead of my grandfathers and across the road from the old homestead is the old aspen grove i remember. that old grove has been their for 100/s of years. in that grove was dozens of wild grape vines covering every tree. their are still some spots that were never ever cut down or plowed under up their. wild straw berries grow on the unturned prairie up their also and are they good. the winter squash i grow is pink banana, small blue hubbards, arickara native squash and italian trombone squash that is eaten young and mature. if i only grew one type it would be the pink banana. nothing is better than that winter squash. they grow it in calif for baby food squash. its good any ways you cook it. baked or pies or anyways. it is related to the guatamalan blue but better. also the candy roaster from down south is a close relation. it is the best of them all. the trombone italian is related and close to ther butternut but much bigger and way more productive. give it a try and you will like it. i have winter squash in three diff. locations this year and they will will give me a lot of squash. our native friends love squash and they love it when i give them some in the fall. they lived off of squash for 1000/s of years and it is their favorite garden food. they are right, it is very good for you. a pink banana type with orange stripes is grown by the tribes in wisconsin, they lived off of that squash since time way way back. acorns come from n.dak tribes but it isnt as good as the banana type. regular hubbards come the east coast tribes. they are too big for me too lift at my age. thats why i grow the smaller blue hubbard that has been crossed with another smaller squash in oregon. they all are good to eat. i also grow the spaghetti and have about 20 of them out in the garden. my wife eats those. you steam those and mix tomato sauce with them and eat like pasta. if you grow them with acorn they will cross with them and it can be a strange interesting mixture. they will mix with some types of pumpkins also. also if you put out a large garden of squash you can take all the flowers of and make a nice soup out of that. it is very good and good for you. the natives ate the flowers, the young green squash and the mature squash. they are all good.
