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Post by heavyhitterokra on Nov 16, 2022 8:27:16 GMT -6
That sure looks good!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Nov 16, 2022 21:13:34 GMT -6
Thanks, fellows. It was tasty. I was pleased that the pumpkin was an even bigger hit with the kids than the chicken was.
I have one more out there that is growing, I think. I don’t want to let it go too long, but it needs a bit more size before I pick it. The vines still look good, so maybe things will pick up when we move beyond this cold spell. Maybe not, though, as the sunlight is getting pretty short, and at the low angle my garden gets a lot more shade.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Nov 21, 2022 19:08:06 GMT -6
The farther we get away from the time of year when things come fresh from the garden, the better that fried, green Seminole squash looks!
I'm already looking at 2023 seed catalogs and I haven't even turned my 2022 garden under yet. Pitiful ... just pitiful ...
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Post by chrysanthemum on Nov 24, 2022 20:53:41 GMT -6
I picked and fried up another batch of green Seminole Pumpkins this week. They were tasty. They didn’t grow quickly in the cold weather we’ve been having, but I could tell that they were turning a lighter color, so I went ahead and picked them so that they wouldn’t get over mature for summer squash purposes. (The light green one on the left was shaded under the edge of the raised bed, so I think that side just never really photosynthesized so well or something.). When I was cutting these squash, I noticed that they tended to break easily instead of just slicing through, and I think that was a sign of their age. They were still tender enough to be cooked and eaten as summer squash, though, and were quite delicious.
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Post by woodeye on Nov 24, 2022 22:29:46 GMT -6
Those are some beautiful squash, chrysanthemum. You have done such a great job with the Seminole Pumpkins.
I remember back when you have your plant, or plants, a haircut. It seems like that was a secret to success. Good going!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Nov 25, 2022 9:00:18 GMT -6
Thank you for your kind words. woodeye. One nice thing about the longer growing season down here is that I can get some second chances with plants, so to speak. I’m not really sure that the haircut helped them succeed more, but it didn’t hurt apparently. I just did it because there was some obvious borer damage so the vines above that weren’t going to be sustainable anyway, and I wanted the plant to be able to concentrate on putting on healthy new growth instead of devoting resources to a doomed area. I think lower temperatures and a bit more moisture have really been the keys. We have hopes for a good rainfall today. I bet the plants will love that.
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Post by hmoosek on Nov 25, 2022 11:15:56 GMT -6
I like the shape of them. So pretty!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Nov 25, 2022 14:36:37 GMT -6
You have seeds for these already, right, hmoosek?
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Post by hmoosek on Nov 25, 2022 15:58:08 GMT -6
You have seeds for these already, right, hmoosek ? Yes! I do have to remember to put some dirt on them next year. The darn things just don’t grow too well in the package. Hahahahaaa!
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 12, 2023 10:38:35 GMT -6
My Seminole Pumpkin is beginning to take off now after a slow start. The other pumpkin in the bed is a volunteer that I let get pretty big in another bed before deciding to transplant it to my designated pumpkin bed. It survived that shock pretty well and is turning in to a monster. We may have some rough weather this weekend, so we’ll see how these big plants fare.
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Post by macmex on May 12, 2023 15:28:13 GMT -6
Beautiful sight! The volunteer looks like a c. moschata but definitely not the same as Seminole.
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 12, 2023 17:32:11 GMT -6
I’m thinking that the volunteer came from some pumpkins that I got my kids last October when they were on a really good sale at the local grocery. They were for Halloween carving. We did carve ours and didn’t eat them, but it put a lot of seeds in my compost, so that’s my guess about these. I had a lot of volunteers and left two of them. They have both bloomed, but so far I don’t think I have a growing fruit on either.
Because they were grown as Jack-o’-lantern types, I just assumed that they’d be pepo or maxima types, so I wasn’t worried about cross pollination. I don’t know that I’ll be growing either of these selections for seed either, so it’s probably best that I continue not to worry about it.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jun 3, 2023 19:10:54 GMT -6
I had my first flower on my Seminole Pumpkin this morning. It was a female, and there were no males open on the plant. I took one from the neighboring pumpkin and attempted cross pollination since I’m not planning to save seeds this year, having saved so many already. I don’t know if it will take, but I wanted to give it a try. The flower isn’t in the photo, but I just wanted to capture how rampantly these vines are growing. My daughter jokes that the garden is often a hideout for insects and little frogs, but she thinks that the pumpkin patch could actually be a hideout for a whole family of bears.
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Post by macmex on Jun 4, 2023 5:05:52 GMT -6
Seminole always makes me happy to see. It's such a vigorous, beautiful plant!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jun 17, 2023 7:06:53 GMT -6
Vigorous is right. My Seminole vine has now gone over my trellis into the bed where the lettuce has gone to seed. I want to see if I can get it onto the soil in that second bed to see if it will root in there.
I harvested the first immature pumpkin off the vine yesterday evening to fry up for our supper. There was already some orange coloration to the flesh inside even though the fruit was still quite young. It had a nice flavor to it. My ten year old in particular loved it. I was glad.
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