As it has not really been possible to do any gardening lately due to the extremely wet weather I am remembering some of the trips we took to other gardens in the Summer and Autumn.
It One of these visits was to a lovely stately home near us that has a wonderful walled garden vegetable and fruit plot.
It was rainy so we went into the greenhouse for a bit of warmth and dry and there it was right in front of us! It was not promoted, they didn't make a big deal of it.
We would have missed it if we hadn't wanted to get out of the wind for awhile.
The gardener just said they were part of the crop and they had recently brought them in.
It was an amazing pumpkin crop! I have never seen one like this in my
life. What a beautiful, bright spectacle of colour and shapes greeted
us!
Some of the pumpkins were so small they
easily fitted into the palm of my hand and some were so enormous it
must have taken several people to lift them into position.
There is the lovely shaped turban squash, the sweet nutty acorn squash and the wonderful Cinderella pumpkin to name a few.
The field pumpkin is
the one we usually see in supermarkets this time of year for
carving.
Squashes are great in cooking and can be roasted,
baked, or mashed. I haven't tried it but I also heard that you can
carve them out, bake them then use to pour soup into as a novel
dining experience!
If you love Pumpkins and Squashes and like to use them for decoration in the home these pumpkin decorations with many options to choose from may be very useful to you
We don't have room currently to grow
pumpkins but I would be very proud of this crop!
Do you like
growing, cooking, or carving pumpkins?
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