Sat, what I'd do is let the plants set 2-3 fruit, then remove the rest young (they apparently CAN be eaten like summer squash) or prune the vine tips to discourage more reproduction. The plants will then concentrate their energy on growing those fruits (which should be 25-30# each!) and ripening them.
Then put off harvesting until the last possible minute, or see if you can get the buyer to give you permission to harvest at the right time. Prematurely harvested squash lack sweetness and flavor, as well as the ability to be stored.
Summerthyme
The buyer is going to come in and flatten or dumpster anything left behind. My raised beds are going with me so around the 18th or maybe the 20th of August they will not b here.
If things go right by the 26th those beds will be reassembled, filled and short season and Winter stuff will go in.
We've been given two months Move Out time and we have not been given a Closing for this property but I've heard Aug1. That would give us thru October but that I extra gas and wear on the Jeep going back and forth. I will take my losses and keep going.
Boton song "Don't look Back".
I am pre=positioning everything except the beds them selves just outside the gates on each side of this property-flagstones, castle wall bricks [[I'd leave those ugly things but FL wants them]], bagged compost, bagged soil and so forth.
Some will say leave it behind and get New-in my mind we are on borrowed time. I cannot depend on finding New with the Economy going to hell, it's 45 minutes. I can rent a trailer for $50, haul it oer for $50. I cannot buy new Stone, soil and so forth for $50, moe like $300 just for the garden soil so, unless someone wants to order me a load I'm doing it the hard way I suppose.
Need more Cattle Panels-they were around $12 three months ago now they are running closer to $30.
Pallet of Flagstone is around $250-unloaded some for a friend and asked.
I will take donations otherwise it's Grunts, Sweat and Cussing.