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How to preserve garden pumpkins until Halloween
We have a bumper crop of 6 garden pumpkins this year. The vines have
just about died out, and we need to keep the pumpkins until Halloween when we will carve them up. What is the best/easiest way to preserve them for another month? |
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How to preserve garden pumpkins until Halloween
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How to preserve garden pumpkins until Halloween
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:51:09 +1000, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given
wrote: "hr(bob) " wrote in message ... We have a bumper crop of 6 garden pumpkins this year. The vines have just about died out, and we need to keep the pumpkins until Halloween when we will carve them up. What is the best/easiest way to preserve them for another month? As others have mentioned they don't need refrigeration but they do need to be cool without being a overly cold. What no-one has mentioned so far is the importance of retaining a stub of stem from the vine. Most pumpkins will begin to rot sooner rather than later at the point where stem joins the pumpkin on the vine if the stemis removed. The point about stem removal was indeed mentioned, in the recent thread on gourds. |
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How to preserve garden pumpkins until Halloween
On Sep 26, 6:51*am, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:
"hr(bob) " wrote in message ... We have a bumper crop of 6 garden pumpkins this year. *The vines have just about died out, and we need to keep the pumpkins until Halloween when we will carve them up. *What is the best/easiest way to preserve them for another month? As others have mentioned they don't need refrigeration but they do need to be cool without being a overly cold. *What no-one has mentioned so far is the importance of retaining a stub of stem from the vine. *Most pumpkins will begin to rot sooner rather than later at the point where stem joins the pumpkin on the vine if the stemis removed. Thanx for the reply, I did know about leaving some of the stem on. Learned many years ago not to lift by the stem. |
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