Butternut: I grow 3 different varieties of butternuts: a butternut that gets huge and weight over 9 lbs. These are perfect for pureeing and freezing so you have squash for use through the year or cube and freeze. Butternuts also are nice in fall displays. I’m trying for my third year to grow a butternut…
Tag: Fall Decorating
The Pumpkin Patch
It’s almost fall. I love fall, though I do want summer to hang on for another 5 weeks. I need the heat to get the pumpkins ripe and the vegetables were super late this year. This year I’m participating in Open Farm Day Manitoba. I’m opening up my pumpkin patch to the public on Sept….
Beautiful pumpkins
I grow around 60 varieties of pumpkins and winter squash. Why so many kinds? So I can have blue, pink, white, tan, green, flat, upright, round, big, small, etc. I love having pumpkins of all shapes and colors. One kind of pumpkin I grow is pie pumpkins. They have less water (a dryer flesh), less…
Pumpkin vs Winter Squash
I sometimes get asked what’s the difference between a pumpkin and a winter squash? I really don’t have a answer to that question. They both belong to the Cucurbita family and than they branch off into other families. All pumpkins are winter squash: mature fruit of certain species in the genus Cucurbita. Subspecies include pepo, moschata, argyrosperma, and…
Gourds
My favorite question is: can you eat gourds? I’m sure you could, but you’re teeth might not appreciate biting into them. Gourds are used as decorations for Thanksgiving, fall, and Halloween decorating. I love growing gourds, as you never know what you’re going to get. When picking the gourds it’s like going on an Easter…
Pumpkinist Lora 