ninnymary
Garden Master
Yes! Thank you Carol.
Show off your pumpkins
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journey11
Garden Master
Lavender2
Garden Addicted
What a precious photo! And a group of kids who will remember their first pumpkins (and you) forever!
barefootgardener
Deeply Rooted
Your grandsons did a great job on their pumpkins! Love your girls also!Here are some of the boys 1st ever pumpkin crop.View attachment 9421
They think there are 20-24 out there.View attachment 9422
The girls came to talk to me when I stopped for a photoView attachment 9423
barefootgardener
Deeply Rooted
They look so happy with their pumpkins!
barefootgardener
Deeply Rooted
The second year for La Madera, @barefootgardener .
However, my winter squash patch may be turning into a gene pool ..! I planted saved seed. The plants and fruit appear to be the same as last year's. However again, last year's squash were variable ...
I saved seed from Autumn Crown, also. It's a hybrid to start with. The fruit this year has Autumn Crown's shape but the grey color of some of last year's La Madera.
I also have Burgess Buttercup in the garden each year. None of the plants from saved seed show any buttercup characteristics.
I've eaten some of the buttercups but none of the larger squash. There is the real test ...
Steve
Thank's Steve!
How does the La Madera taste flavor wise? Does it have dry flesh, sweet? Inquiring minds want to know!!
digitS'
Garden Master
I don't think things looked so bad yesterday morning.
Considering it's fall ...
This morning, they are dripping with sprinkler water. Let's see if I saved the tomatoes ..
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Steve
Considering it's fall ...
This morning, they are dripping with sprinkler water. Let's see if I saved the tomatoes ..
.
Steve
barefootgardener
Deeply Rooted
Here is a picture of Black Futsu winter squash. The fruits start out a deep blue/green, then a soft gray, black, and turn into a chestnut color as they ripen for storage. The fruits are warty and heavily ribbed. Very pretty. This is my first year growing out this Moschata variety.
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digitS'
Garden Master
Candy sweet!Thank's Steve!
How does the La Madera taste flavor wise? Does it have dry flesh, sweet? Inquiring minds want to know!!
It is only offered to Native Seed Search members or I would have bought more seed for 2015. They have "Taos" this year and I think it's a replacement. La Madera is close to Taos, geographically. Bumblebees probably don't fly that far, however ...
@Hal and I are content with it making some crosses, altho, I don't believe he was thinking about La Madera crossing with Autumn Crown
.Buttercup has been an absolute standard in my garden for decades. It doesn't produce fully mature fruits in a normal year or I'm not curing them properly or I really don't have the best place for storage. Still, they have been my best choice.
Since this is the pumpkin thread -- I'm convinced that there is a world of pumpkin culinary opportunities! Of course, there are dessert breads and soup but I substituted pumpkin for zucchini in another soup recipe - good!
Steve
who finds pumpkin easier to grow and, so far, as long keeping
barefootgardener
Deeply Rooted
I am also growing out a C. maxima x C. moschata cross.. Tetsukabuto. This winter squash is known as the Japanese pumpkin.. The description of the fruit is what sold me on it. It has a deep yellow flesh with sweet and nutty, smooth and creamy, flesh, like custard. I have not tasted it yet, but plan on cutting into, and cooking up one this weekend.
