Re: Pumpkin Life
In a message dated 2/20/01 10:51:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, Stugunu@aol.com
writes:
<< I have a friend that had a pumpkin last 6 months after it was picked. It
was
the size
of a basket ball. Is it common for a pumpkin to last that long? And I was
wondering if anyone else had seen a pumpkin last this long.
>>
Gary:
I brought a pumpkin from CA to FL October of 1999, roughly 18 lbs or so. It
was a Lumina variety, perfectly symmetrical. It remained firm and sound for
more than a year. In fact, I moved it last December, and noted it was
beginning to become soft.
Not wanting it to rot and ooze, I cut it open in January and dumped the seeds
onto my yard and discarded the fruit. Last week, from under the autumn
leaves, a few hundred sprouts came up, telling me the seeds were viable.
If you wash pumpkins with a mild clorox/water mix and keep them cool and dry,
they can last a year. Pick a pepo variety(field pumpkins), not a maxima. The
hard skin and dry handle of the Pepo varieties are most like hard squash, and
tend to keep better than others.
Barb
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