I want to see your pumpkins!

[Smart Red]

Our pumpkin crop failed.

Our pumpkin crop failed. . .
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[TheSeedObsesser]

A few of my Musquee de Provence pumpkins lined up on the deck to cure.

First ripened, first chopped (maybe chopped a little early, but I was excited to see how they tasted).

And these are the offspring from a New England Pie pumpkin x Black Beauty (Black Magic?) zucchini. Not intentional, just the only C. pepo s grown in the garden last year. The long green one is now a beautiful orange with dark green "webbing"/netting.

I've got many more, but not of a variety that you haven't seen in this post.

 

[canesisters]

Not mine... but local grown...

Picked them up a the produce auction

 

[catjac1975]

Seedobsessor- Your Musquee de Provence look like what I grow called Rumbo. One of my favorites for roasting as a vegetable and making into pie.

 

[ninnymary]

Oh you guys are always making me jealous I so wish I had the space to grow pumkins for the kids. Think how much fun that would be!

Mary

 

[canesisters]

Does it take much to grow the itty bitty ornamental ones? Maybe just a few feet of ground and a trellis???? (never grown them, have no idea)

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Mary - do you grow zucchinis? There are bush varieties of pumpkin out there like "Cheyenne Bush" from the SSE and a Russian variety (who's name I'm not going to bother to try to spell from memory) from Victory Seeds. Shouldn't take up more room than a zucchini plant.

 

[Nyboy]

What color is the inside of white pumpkins ?

 

[journey11]

@ninnymary , you could grow those little gourds that look like mini pumpkins. You can trellis them to save space and they are so cute. My kids were given a couple that were decorations from a church dinner and they have carried them around and played with them for days.

 

[catjac1975]

Marry- If you have a fence you can grow a few plants on it. They love a fence. Just bring the pumpkin to the ground when it forms , or give it a netting to keep it from breaking the vine.