What a beautiful heirloom to grow in your garden! Also known as Shamrock Squash, this is an heirloom variety originally grown in Australia that produces wonderful slate blue, 8 to 10 pound pumpkins that with excellent eating quality.
Excellent flavor and a novelty for fall decoration makes for a great addition to any garden. 105 days.
3728 Tours ( French Heirloom )
Most unusual looking pumpkin weighing up to 16-18 pounds. Tours is a beautiful, upright, oval pumpkin that adds height and a different shape to fall displays. It is dark green with pale green striping and has pale yellow flesh. Tours has a long history of use in France for pickling, soups, jam and animal feed. The extremely large seeds (about 80 per ounce) have medicinal properties for people and animal and produce a tremendous amount of oil when pressed. The fruit will store for 5 months. 95 days.
A French heirloom field pumpkin, named for its place of origin, and listed by Vilmorin as early as 1856. The large-fruited pumpkin has distinctive large oil seeds with wide margins which were once used in the manufacture of sugar-coated pills and as a remedy for tapeworm. Great for displays and carving. 90-100 days.
SF390 Orange Smoothie Hybrid
2002 AAS Edible Vegetable Winner. Children will be infatuated with Orange Smoothie pumpkins. The dark orange, smooth skin is ideal for painting Halloween faces. The size is desirable for young hands, weighing 5 to 8 pounds with a strong, long handle. Orange Smoothie pumpkins will mature early, in about 90 days from sowing seed.
Another benefit is the semi-determinate habit requiring less space in the garden. Easy-to-grow from seed or started plants, Orange Smoothie is an all-around great pumpkin for carving, painting, decorating and even the meat is sweet for homemade pumpkin pie. 90-100 days.
LET814 Mini Fall Blend Mix
An open pollinated mixture of mini pumpkins ranging from orange, white, green, and bicolor. The shapes vary from round to flat and ribbed. Mini Fall Blend is an edible mixture that is wonderful baked or just used as ornamentals. 90-100 days.
LET242 Knuckle Head
Why have ordinary pumpkins for Haloween when you can have these weird, mutated looking gems. Spectacular warting makes them the star of the show. Large super-freak type, warted, scary for unwary, 12-16 pound pumkins, 105 days.
LET498 Autumn Colors Hybrid
Add a new dimension to fall ornamental decorations. Unusual, tri-colored fruits have green bottoms, light orange tops, and white stripes from top to bottom. Avg. 4–10 lb. Great for decorating. The fine grained sweet golden flesh is excellent for baking and cooking. Excellent keeper. 90 days to maturity.
LET499 Seminole
Cucurbita moschata. Seminole Pumpkin is an heirloom, pie pumpkin variety with excellent disease resistance. Keeps up to 1 year at room temperature! Small fruits are sweeter than Butternut and have firm, deep-orange flesh. Large vines bear bell-shaped buff-colored fruits averaging 6 in. in diameter. Resistant to vine borers. Excellent Downy Mildew resistance; a good choice for hot, humid, disease-prone areas. Give it ample water and room to roam. Also good as a summer squash when picked young. Traditionally grown by Calusa, Creek, and Miccosukee peoples in Florida.
JB106 Wee Be Little
1999 All-America Selections winner. Tiny, round ornamental pumpkin. Remarkably miniature, about the size of a baseball, avg. 3-3 1/2" diam., 10-14 oz., and very endearing. Slightly flat-round shape like a normal pumpkin. Bright orange rind, smooth enough for painting. Semibush plants for close spacing. Avg. yield: 8 fruits per plant. 90-100 days.
FA15 Speckled Hound F1 Hybrid Pumpkin
Speckled Hound Pumpkin is the perfect addition to ornamental
winter squash displays. This great tasting pumpkin exhibits
light to medium color with green to blue-green splotches. Dense
flesh and strong foliage gives fruit protection yet plant is
open for easy harvest. Tolerant to Zucchini Yellow Mosaic
Virus. 95-100 days.
TPF223 Cornfield Pumpkin
The perfect pumpkin for Jack O' Lanterns and holiday decorations. Flattened, light skinned fruits grow to 12-15 pounds.
The name comes from an old tradition of farmers planting them alongside their corn crops for weed suppression.
Sturdy stems, good for carving and fall decorations.
Jim's Tip: How to roast pumpkin seeds
Preheat oven to 300.
Combine 1 Teaspoon oil or melted butter plus ½ teaspoon
salt per cup of seeds. If you like, you can add other spices
like pepper, paprika, and/or garlic.
Toss seeds with oil mixture until well coated.
Spread evenly on a cookie sheet.
Bake until golden, about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Let cool on paper towels
LET690 Kakai Hulless Seed Pumpkin
Great looking novelty fruit produces large, dark green, completely hull-less seeds, which are absolutely delicious roasted. Pumpkins reach 5 to 8 pounds in size, unique look of orange with black stripes make this a great decoration pumpkin. Semi-bush habit doesn't take up a lot of space. 100 days.
SF383 Pepitas Hybrid "Naked Seed Pumpkin"
AAS winner in both the decorative and culinary arenas! All-purpose variety - Strong handle; beautiful golden orange rinds with dark green streaks; delicious, nutritious flesh and bountiful "naked" tender,succulent, nutty seeds for roasting!
Vining plants produce 5-6 uniform round, smooth fruits that weigh 9-12 lb and measure 12-14" wide. Tolerant: Powdery Mildew. Resistant: Southern Root Rot. 90 days.
JM161 Casperita Hybrid
Casperita is a great personal size hybrid winter squash. This white pumpkin with a green handle exhibits a classic pumpkin shape with deep ridges. Casperita has a Semi-bush habit that is a very good producer. This outstanding pumpkin also features flesh and sugars similar to Acorn type squash. Casperita combines a stunning look with a great classic pumpkin shape and can be used for ornamental and edible purposes. Powdery Mildew Race 2, WMV tolerance. 77 days. 8 ounces to 1 lb. size.
G150 Bright Red French Pumpkin
This classic Heirloom Pumpkin is as traditional as they come! With its lovely, smooth orange skin and flattened "old fashioned" shape, this pumpkin is just as suited to be decoration as it is to be a delicious pie!
Also known as Cinderella Pumpkin. Most unusual! A reddish orange pumpkin that is shaped flat and resembles a bright red cheese wheel more than a pumpkin. The 12-16 lb. fruits produce a sweet orange flesh that is great for pumpkin pies. A definite must for fall decorations.
Excellent Variety for Canning, Baking Pies and Bread. Favored by French chefs for rich soup stock. 95 days.
FA14 Bumpkin F1 PMT Pumpkin
Orange in color, semi-bush. Fruits are a little larger than
Jack Be Little with strong green handles. Makes an excellent
display with Gooligan. Excellent disease package.
JM106 Big Max
Handsome pumpkins, up to 100 lbs. or more, make excellent pies and impressive jack-o'-lanterns. Fine-grained, bright orange flesh is great for canning or freezing.
One of the largest pumpkins, often over 100 pounds with sufficient moisture, space and fertilizer. Bright yellow-orange flesh 3-4" thick, suitable for pies. 120 days.
1A157 Jarrahdale
Uniquely blue-skinned pumpkin, usually weighs 7-8 lbs. with a
10 inch diameter. Excellent quality flesh. 95 days.