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13-03-2008, 01:19 PM
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Pumpkin and Squash Seeds to Eat?
Hello you knoweldgable lot
 I luuuuuurve eating pumpkin/squash seeds and will have a plentiful supply I hope this year, even after seed saving for next year. As much as I love eating the seeds I despise picking them out of the darned shells - your fingers hurt after a while, not to mention the fact you get left with a dodgey greeny tinge to your fingers... Does anyone know a better way to shell them en-mass?
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13-03-2008, 02:13 PM
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There are varieties that have shell-less seeds - Triple Treat, Hungarian Mammoth or Lady Godiva cultivars.
Haven't seen them for sale that I can remember but I'm sure if you Google them you'll find a supplier...
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So, what do you do to the seeds when you take them from the pumpkin? Do they have to be prepared in some way to turn them into the sort that you can buy?|
13-03-2008, 04:26 PM
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Hiya, I think I'll have a nose for those varieties vicky, ta
Mapcr77... they're a bit like sunflower seeds in that they have a husk around them that needs to be removed before you can munch them. But they're so small and fiddly that it drives me nuts to de-shell them all an I usually just throw them away 
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13-03-2008, 10:11 PM
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I think the sunflower seeds ripen after the flower dies off. I give them all to the chooks, they love them. Once the husks have dried they are pretty easy to shell, just roll them around between your hands and they come off.
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