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33 Comments
I would buy those seeds… đ â¤
Don't grow them just for stacking display. Those are all good long winter storage squash that get sweeter mid to late winter. Cut the grocery bill. Use those squash as the basis of a land race, see which survive the best and taste the best and keep growing and savings seeds.
Standard jack o lanterns are selling for $10+ here in upstate SC
I saved seeds from my candy corn pumpkin,pie pumpkin and fairytale pumpkin. I had to pay about five dollars for the candy corn, three bucks for my pie pumpkin and probably sevin bucks for my fairytale one.
I use all pumpkins, to save the seeds too, but I also save all he edible flesh and roast them in the oven for amazing and yummy pumpkin puree, and I make loads of pumpkin soups to pressure can for future meals…
Not only does the kubota work hard. It plays hard too. lol Sweet!
If they are organic, this is a great price to buy some pumpkins and can them for later pies. Plus save the seeds and use if you want.
A lot of good eating you missed out on. I grew a lot of them this year. Could not believe how good they were roasted. The flesh not the seeds.
The only potential issue with them is open pollination and could be crosses of other varieties.
Our Publix grocery store has them as ornamental. I did google lens but got different results trying to figure out what kind it was. Was about $8 each
I did a fair bit of seed saving myself this year! It's been a lot of fun learning how to save the different types of seeds. We experienced an unprecedented amount of drought this season so I made lemonade out of those lemons and built up my seed supply to save myself money next season. Thanks for the great content đ
Cross polination might be annoying but it certainly isn't always the worst thing in the world. I planted some "beefsteak" tomatoes this year from seed and only like 30% of them were beefsteaks! The rest were like mini cherry sized beef steaks, some cross between beefsteak and Roma, and some cool geometric looking beefsteak cross. Occasionally they would make failing fruits that had weird shaped holes in them which is the main danger of random pollination. Regardless it's playing a genetic lottery and overall I would say it's worth the try because most of the time the results should be better than you expect. After-all cross pollination is only natural. It could even lead to superior genetics.
Can I got free seed pumpkin
One of the stores I go to gives the pumpkins away the morning after Halloween. â¤ď¸đI grabbed the two smallest. But they had the fancy ones. I plan to dehydrate mine! The pumpkinâs not the seeds.
I love to eat the seeds, but I have saved about 10 to plant the next year.
I get free "spoiled" produce pick up from a local store to feed my livestock. I save seed from everything I can. next year I will have a huge variety of gourds and pumpkins to plant.
I did the same, buying a bunch at the grocery store after Halloween. So much fun for a few bucks. These are a great edible substitute for sweet potatoes or any orange flesh squash. I intend to keep the seeds of each variety separate to better keep track of germination, vine length, production per stem, and maturity. Let the landrace begin!
It is a shame to waste all of that squashđ˘ I roast our squashes, purĂŠe the flesh through a food mill and freeze it in recycled 16oz sour cream containers, each one makes a pie and two make a hearty soup.
Dang it Luke! Making me get the tractor out. I have to try this!
I hope you saved the pumpkins for good food as well…never throw food away…
Ooh youâre missing out on roasting all of those! Delicious with nutmeg, sage, smoked paprika, salt, pepper, and butter
The past two years I have had volunteer pumpkin vines and have ended up with beautiful peach pumpkins and white pumpkins. This year I had 11 good sized pumpkins – ALL VOLUNTEER!
This is a great idea, and ironically just did this with a blue jarranhal yesterday!
do you wash the seeds at all or just dry the seeds with the pulp still attached?
If you're having problems with vine borers, I'd recommend the Dickinson's pumpkin, one of the breeds of C. moschata. Its stems are not hollow, so they're less attractive to vine borers. I don't grow pumpkins, but the centerpiece of my garden is always the Tahitian butternut, which produces massive limb-sized gourds. Easily got over 100 lbs of squash from just a few plants.
Thank you
Thanks Luke!
In my area Iâve found the best time to garbage pick these unique varieties is right after thanksgiving, so keep an eye out over the next few weeks. Also canât beat a machete over the old chopping block for slicing them open.
Mentions everything that you can do with the pumpkins after you take the seeds out except he fails to mention that you can eat them. Just feels so wasteful.
Thats a lot of good food gone )
I do this every year and have gotten some very interesting pumpkins, plus many of them taste good. I remove the seeds and feed the leftover pumpkins to the cattle, they love 'em. I'd eat them but I have a storage room full of butternut to use up!
I bought a fairy tale pumpkin for $1.99, made a few delicious dishes and saved a bunch of seeds for planting!
I just throw the pumpkin on the compost. Usually, I will get about 25 volunteers that make it till maturity.