Show off your pumpkins

More about pear pie it is one of the few fruits i can grow

I got pics of two of the three pumpkins I got this year (I just don't have the space to grow my own)

#1 Rotted about a week after I bought it (That's why it was carved in the pic, I tried cutting the rotten bits own to give it a little more time, it didn't work)


#2 (no picture) was an off white one about basketball sized. Unfortunately it also went bad quicky

#3 Current one. To be carved tomorrow or the day after

w_r_ranch said:

LOL!!! I ran across the above picture while doing some pumpkin research a couple of years ago & thought I'd share it!!!

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Can't see the picture.

Mary

ninnymary said:

Can't see the picture.

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That's weird, I saw it fine in your post... I'll try again & you tell me if you can see them.

My first pumpkin pie WAS pumpkin. Gypsy wanted to bake a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dinner the first year I grew pumpkins. Not having any canned pie mix (the squash variety I suppose) I cooked down a pumpkin and strained the water out through cheesecloth. Made a great pie.

w_r_ranch said:

That's weird, I saw it fine in your post... I'll try again & you tell me if you can see them.

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Yes, I see them now. You should have warned me about the first pic though.

Mary

All of the Veterinarians here are recamending adding pumpkin to dogs diet to help with anal glands. Lucky how are pennies glands doing ?

@Pulsegleaner I never would have thought to crave a warty pumpkin, i really like how yours turned out

That one isn't really warty in the classical sense (I half suspect it was half Hubbard squash, based on the texture and smell). There were SO MANY warts it was really more like an undulating surface. But the important bit was that the warts were not suberized (woody); that made the job doable.

Compare it to last years which was a no hope

THAT one proved to be half gourd, and had enough gourd genes to have a SHELL under that skin

I actually suspect the one carved tonight might have some squash in it too, given that skin pattern (looks like a turban) If the insides turn out to be bright reddish orange, I won't be surprised.

That farmstand over near Central Ave always has some wacky pumpkins (thier corn this year is also surprisingly diverse, a blessing in this low corn year)

There is a farm stand near Central Ave ? That is one ugly pumpkin !!!!