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    Pumpkin question?

    Cut nine pumpkins the other day that I'd grown for the grandbairns for halloween.

    Some are fully ripened and orange and others still have a bit of green on them.

    Will they be ok until the end of October to be used as halloween lanterns?

    PS One had been munched by what I can only assume were rats, thats why I lifted them straight away.
    Last edited by Snadger; 01-10-2011, 08:35 AM.
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    I would have thought so Snadge put the green ones in the sun to ripen off. Greenhouse if you have one or sunny windowsill.
    Lucky grandkids
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    • #3
      Pumpkins last for ages. We left ours in the back garden after Halloween last year and it sat there quite happily until frost turned it to mush in February.

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      • #4
        the whole point of growing them, in the past, was to store them for food when nothing much was available in harsh winters LOL

        So yes they will store for months

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        • #5
          Hi Snadger,

          They should be fine and should last upto and beyond Halloween (if left uncarved ), so long as they are in a dry place. As VVG says, putting the greener ones somewhere sunny should help them ripen fully.

          Reet
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Thelma Sanders View Post
            the whole point of growing them, in the past, was to store them for food when nothing much was available in harsh winters LOL

            So yes they will store for months
            Thats what I thought, but not being familiar with them (familiar with a pumpkin drums up strange connotations in the mind!) I just thought I'd check!
            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

            Diversify & prosper


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            • #7
              (familiar with a pumpkin drums up strange connotations in the mind!)
              ooh errr Missus

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