I recently discovered that not everyone know pumpkins are green until they turn orange. Most of mine this year are already orange and BIG! I’m not sure the green pumpkins pictured here will make it in time.
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I love pumpkins because there are so many ways to use the fresh pumpkin meat. Plus they are the fall reminder of the biggest and best of the garden slide into home base at the end! I am trying to grow the only variety possible in Florda called the Seminole Pumpkin. It looks like a pumpkin shaped butternut squash and the meat is delicious to cook with. Right now the vine is trying to take over the front yard but no signs of flowers yet. I hope it all makes it. Our biggest threats are molds and bugs because of the persistent hot and humid environment. Here is hoping I have some harvest come November.
The green pumpkins are equally beautiful! I like to have an assorted collection for the month of October. I especially like the real “warty” pumpkins.
we recently discovered that pumpkins are good to eat when they are young, also. Baby pumpkins are tender and delicious steamed or baked!
I just bring the green ones inside when a hard frost threatens. It sometimes takes until Thanksgiving, but so far once I move them into a warmer part of the house they have all eventually turned orange.