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Summer vine, originating from the Americas. Fruit kept for winter eating. For seed saving it is best to grow only one variety with-in 2km. Can save seeds from ripe fruit when eating. Likes rich soil. Harvest as vine dies off and stem dries out. Sow after last frost.
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Atlantic Giant
Huge exhibition sized pumpkins which repeatedly holds the world record, red-orange skin, not the best eating variety, good stock feed.
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Baby Blue
Good flavour and keeping qualities, round fruit to 15cm, blue/grey skin, orange flesh
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Big Max
Red-orange skin nearly round fruit, slightly rough to 45cm, use yellow-orange flesh in pies, good for faces and exhibition.
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Black Prince
Grey, medium-sized fruit, orange flesh, compact grower
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Cindarella
Round to 25cm, small bush, bright orange skin, excellent flavour, French heirloom.
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Crown Prince
Hard grey skin, sweet dry deep orange flesh, small cavity, excellent storing
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Golden Nugget
Fine textured sweet, light orange flesh, small flat globe shaped fruit, bushy habit, prolific bearing, good keeper.
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Jabk Be Little
Tiny 5-7cm, sweet orange flesh, deeply ribbed flattened orange fruit, delightful miniature, appealing table decoration and craft, shelf life to 12 months, dried on the vine.
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Jack 'O Lantern
Orange rind and pale orange flesh to 25cm, used for Halloween display, not highly uniform with both round and oblong shapes, good cooking and stores well.
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Jap
Excellent firm bright yellow flesh, then grey green shell, known in USA from 1860's, popular in Australia's hotter climates.
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Jarrahdale
Popular market variety. Excellent fruit, large grey-skinned deep orange flesh, easy to cut and peel. Originating in W.A. Large vine, good keeper.
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Munchkin
Baby scalloped, bright-orange skin, sweet thick orange-yellow flesh, use baked or decoratively, holds firmness a long time.
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Papaw
Sweet thick deep yellow flesh with nutty flavour, trailing vine, fruit up to 4kg, appearance of papaw. Disease resistant.
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Pink Banana Jumbo
Orange flesh, fibreless dry sweet, up to 15kg and cylindrical shape to 75cm long, smooth dark pink-orange skin when mature, slightly curved, vigorous vine, for limited storage, use in pies or baking.
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Queensland Blue
Large pumpkin, dark slate grey heavily ribbed skin. Sweet, deep orange flesh. Top keeping pumpkin.
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Small Sugar
Orange fruit, flattened globe shaped to 30cm, stringless sweet thick yellow flesh reputed to be the best pie pumpkin.
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Smithy's Gold
Medium sized firm orange flesh with pale orange skin, bakes well
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Stryian Hull-Less
Beautiful eating seed fresh or dried, harvest pumpkins when stem starts to dry and fruit goes streaky yellow. Collect seed immediately. Very high oil content. Sow after frost
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Tramble
Large three-lobed fruit to 6kg, tough grey rind, deep orange flesh, sweet, firm and dry
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Turkish Turban
Delicious striped orange fruit to 30cm, hard skinned with striped "bump" on the top, described in 1845 regarded in England as mostly ornamental.
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Walnut Betternut
Small nutty flavoured pear-shaped to 22cm and 2kg, flesh is light orange, dry and very tasty. Small seed cavity, vigorous vines. Grown in all states, good keeper.
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