pumpkini update

daniel...from the grocery store...i reckon you just can't go by the kent pumpkin.
also...the butternut is good, and is a different kind of pumpkin so won't cross breed with the kent by accident.
my favouritest, favouritest pumpkin is the spaghetti squash. erica vale seeds carries those (not sold at bunnings over here) and i think also eden seeds has them. the spaghetti squashes can cross with the kents tho...so if you're saving seeds....you have to be deliberate about it. this vine is very long...but also rather, oh, dainty? not the big elephant ear sized leaves. thin leaves, lightish green, very very pretty plant. that will grow up one side of the cage...over the top, and down the other side. you can grow your lettuces in their dappled shade!

Garden Dan wrote:

OK you folk - you have sucked me in - I am going to look up pumpkin growing and get into this - what are the good varieties in your opinion...we did speak of this previously...jap, kent, QLD Blue...but there seems to be others getting a mention....

Daniel i have seed here if you want some of the Green Chestnut above,its the just oozes flavour,down side,half the crop are just chock food as the flowers dont fertlize properley so the pumpkin is taste less,but the other half makes up for it in taste.Love to send you or anyone else seed, just PM me

Thanks mate - WILCO.