PUMPKIN & WINTER SQUASH
VEGETABLE SEEDSPumpkin and Winter Squash are both long keeping cucurbits that are locally referred to as Pumpkins. There is no difference in culture or use. Constant watering and heavy feeding are required for good crops. Sow October to December (cold): September to January (temp): July to March (trop). Sow into warm soil, in groups of 3 or 4 seeds, with 1 to 1.5 metres between clumps. Thin to the strongest. 5-14 s/g
PUMPKIN AND WINTER SQUASH
2061: Pumpkin/Winter Squash Collection
Six seeds each of five varieties, separately packed. Included are Golden Nugget, Waltham Butternut, Jarrahdale, Blue Baby and Queensland Blue.
1857: Special Assorted Pumpkins
A surprise packet of all our best Pumpkins and Winter Squash to give a little interest to the garden.
PUMPKIN - BUSH TYPES:
1823: Bush Table Queen
Small dark green ribbed “Acorn” fruit on a small space saving plant. Keeps well.
Sorry, this product is sold out for 2021.
1836: Golden Nugget
Delicious good keeping orange fruit the size of a grapefruit. Bush sometimes produces short runners. Prolific.
MEDIUM SIZED VINES:
1831: Baby Blue
Fruit rounded with dry deep orange flesh. Skin blue/grey and around 15 cm. across. Keeps well. Packets only.
1826: Butternut Waltham
A high quality Butternut strain. Smaller than Hercules. Ideal for both gardener and the Commercial grower.
1837: Ebisu Delica Hybrid
Small mottled green fruit (around 2 kg.) with very dry deep orange flesh. Highly regarded by the Japanese, this cultivar is absolutely number 1 for taste.
1856: Jap
Exceptionally dry and fine flavoured. Soft skinned, this mottled yellow and green medium size pumpkin is rapidly gaining popularity. Not suited to cool areas. Sometimes called Kent.
1839: Sunset QHI (new!)
(C. moschata). This uniform large Butternut is high yielding and has an attractive cream skin and deep orange flesh. The seed cavity is small. Plants have some virus resistance. Australian developed.
LARGE VINE TYPES:
1859: Blue Hubbard
A blue/grey skinn4ed Hubbard. Solid fruit with dry orange flesh weigh up to 9 kg. Keeps well.
1849: Jarrahdale (W.A. Grey)
Excellent storing, handling and eating cultivar with grey skin and deep orange flesh. Good market cultivar with good sized fruit.
1852: Potkin Hybrid
Beautiful tasty fruit can be eaten immature when it tastes like a mixture of potato and pumpkin, or when mature as normal. Excellent keeper with hard dark green skin. Must be sown with another cultivar to ensure good fruit set.
1841: Queensland Blue
Popular and highly regarded, this cultivar has maintained its popularity for over 100 years. Our strain has excellent flavour and storage features.
1825: Red Hubbard
Small (20 cm) rounded bright red/orange fruit with excellent taste and keeping qualities. Packets only.
Sorry, this product is sold out for 2021.
1832: Sweet Grey Hybrid
Medium sized fruit (30 to 40 cm.), on vigorous vines. Skin light grey with deep orange flesh. Prolific, tasty and reliable.
