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FarmI · 26-09-2010, 12:51 PM posted to rec.gardens

"hr(bob) " wrote in message
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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.