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melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I hope they go ok… pumpkins are apparently prone to mildew and attract pests. And I’m worried the pots are too small.

I was going to get Small Sugar pumpkins but checked the size of the fruit and it’s lucky that I did. Those are smaller than standard but 18cm/2kg would be a bit heavy for vertical growing.

I picked the Jack Be Little variety that seemed like they’d grow to the size of my fist and will support them if I have to. I considered the tiniest ones, Baby Boo, but while edible their description didn’t say they were good eating.

www.theseedcollection.com.au/?skw=Pumpkin

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RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I grew the baby boo pumpkins last year. They were ok to eat, but a bit incipid. They made a decent individual stuffed pumpkin as long as you were relying on the filling for flavour and the pumpkin was mostly presentation.

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- melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I want these for purée. Melbcat is partial to pumpkin
  
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  - RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There definitely would not have been much to puree, there was not much flesh on them.
    
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    melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah. That’s a good thing in one way as you could just slice one or two in half and bake/microwave for a little bit of fresh pumpkin. But I wanted something that would taste nice
    
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