Show off your pumpkins

[Nyboy]

What in the world did he have against pumpkins that he refused to plant one? Glad to hear you have a equal opportunity pumpkin garden, I should have none better LOL

 

[digitS']

am also growing out a C. maxima x C. moschata cross.. Tetsukabuto. This winter squash is known as the Japanese pumpkin..

That sounds great.

I would have missed this. It's what we get with TEG using so many page breaks in a thread ...

I didn't know that there was a C. maxima x C. moschata Japanese pumpkin. Interesting that C. pepo isn't involved but it's called a pumpkin. Is it a stabilized cross?

Sometimes, I see Kabocha described as a pumpkin. Those are very similar to Buttercups but I've yet to find one that does any better than Burgess Buttercup in my garden.

Steve

 

[catjac1975]

What in the world did he have against pumpkins that he refused to plant one? Glad to hear you have a equal opportunity pumpkin garden, I should have none better LOL

clearly NYB, you have forgotten when a young teen is like.

 

[thistlebloom]

What in the world did he have against pumpkins that he refused to plant one? Glad to hear you have a equal opportunity pumpkin garden, I should have none better LOL

He has nothing against pumpkins, it's the work he was having a problem with.

 

[barefootgardener]

I would have missed this. It's what we get with TEG using so many page breaks in a thread ...

I didn't know that there was a C. maxima x C. moschata Japanese pumpkin. Interesting that C. pepo isn't involved but it's called a pumpkin. Is it a stabilized cross?

Sometimes, I see Kabocha described as a pumpkin. Those are very similar to Buttercups but I've yet to find one that does any better than Burgess Buttercup in my garden.

Steve

Steve, all I know with this Japanese hybrid variety, is that it is commonly called a Japanese Pumpkin.

The vine requires a pollinator, like a buttercup or hubbard variety.

I have read that you can use the vine grower as rootstock for grafting watermelons, melon and cucumber to prevent disease. Interesting..

 

[Nyboy]

Oh see in my mind Pumpkins= Halloween= kids favorite holiday. Didn't think of work.

 

[Nyboy]

Gave a lot away

 

[ninnymary]

Did you grow those Nyboy? If so, I'm impressed. If not, I'm not impressed at all!

Mary

 

[Nyboy]

I grew them from seed at work. A lot of them rotted where they touch the ground.

 

[ninnymary]

At least you got some of them to harvest. I thought you said you didn't have any room to grow veggies in.

Mary