Pumpkin 'Kakai'
Cucurbita pepoGrow your own pepitas or hull-less seeds – simply scoop them out and eat raw or roast in the oven. The compact vines can be planted with 1m spacing or grown in a pot. Harvest in 18 weeks. Yields 5 fruits per plant; 250g of seed per fruit.
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Pumpkin 'Kakai'
Grow your own hull-less seeds or pepitas for a nutritious snack. Simply scoop out the seeds and eat raw or roast in the oven. Compact vines can be planted with 1m spacing. Harvest in 18 weeks, 5 fruit per plant, 250 g of seed per fruit.
Pumpkins are the easiest of the curcubits to grow, they are big feeders, so dig in plenty of well rotted manure where they are to grow. They germinate easily in warm soil, gardeners in cooler areas can start their seedlings in pots in a warm spot and plant out after risk of frost has passed. Pumpkins need plenty of water as they grow, mulch well to conserve moisture and eliminate weeds. Harvest pumpkins when the stalk attaching it to the vine turns woody and corky. Cut (not tear) the stalk from the plant. Never lift the pumpkin by this 'handle' as if it breaks off the pumpkin will go mouldy within days.