Cold Snaps and Wrinkled Squash

Several posts ago I posted a picture of my first large Goldbar squash (seeds from Logan's). After the recent cold snap, the latest picks never grew full on the ends and were soft and quickly molded. The squash currently growing are responding well to the 80-degree weather, so I can only imagine the 40-degree nights stunted these three, which is one risk of starting the garden early. The advantage is that as long as it stays warm, I will get a pretty large crop before the invasion of squash bugs and vine borers in late June. I may go ahead and plant some more seeds as a replacement crop when that does happen, since squash can keep producing until the first frost.