Left: pumpkin homegrown 7lb 3kg on the vine. Right: abstract art pumpkin!
Is Pumpkin Green?
Probably as good family fun goes this is pretty low-carbon, and environmentally benign, and thus green. Even when it's orange.
So maybe we should coin a new joke that runs something like:
What's big and orange and green all over? ... A pumpkin!
Other Cucurbitaceae
Updates
2024: slugs ate all the pumpkins that we planted out, even a second sowing: so none for us to eat this autumn!
2023-09-24: the first (~1.3kg) pumpkin is in this year. (We subsequently harvested another two, similar in size, the three weighing in at: 1.252kg, 1.313kg, 1.851kg.) 2023-11-01: mmmmmm pumpkin soup!
2022-09: the very hot weather may have done in our pumpkins this year: we have one gourd that is not much bigger than a beefy beef tomato, and the vine long since withered! (Eaten in a risotto 2022-10-09.)
2021-09: two small pumpkins (~3kg total?) and two small squashes so far this year!
2019-10-06: one already in (2.76kg), three stupidly orange lurking outside still! 2019-10-11: last three in at 3.05kg, 2.85kg, 3.13kg for a total of 11.79kg.
2018-08-31: another three pumpkins this year, first two 1.7kg and 3.1kg, one still on the vine. 2018-09-27 third one harvested and weighs in at 4.5kg.