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[Ifish]

We planted two types of Pumpkin this year. Carving and Crook Necks for eating, pies, pumpkin nog, etc. I had to plant them twice because the seed rotted the first planting from all of the rain. Lucked out on the second planting, but still only had 50% germination.

 

[Ifish]

Yes. Have been quite happy with grinding up my home grown chicken into burger. Very lean, so when cooking it, have to add a bit of fat/oil of some kind to keep it from sticking to the pan, but otherwise it's great.

Yeah, sounds just like pheasant. I mix a little pork fat or beef tallow into the ground pheasant meat before grilling or frying. Duck fat would probably work well to.

My wife likes to make it into some special meatballs. She then covers them in BBQ sauce and bakes them for almost an hour. Very, very, tasty!

 

[hellbender]

No name yet but I found a pic of the ugly pumpkins.

 

[Beer can]

Those big ones? Dill's Atlantic Giant?

 

[bnjrob]

Yeah, sounds just like pheasant. I mix a little pork fat or beef tallow into the ground pheasant meat before grilling or frying. Duck fat would probably work well to.

My wife likes to make it into some special meatballs. She then covers them in BBQ sauce and bakes them for almost an hour. Very, very, tasty!

I usually use beef tallow, keep a jar of it on the counter. Use beef tallow to make flour tortillas too. Can't beat homemade food.

The meat balls sound good.

 

[JRNash]

Yea they do!! Cool pumpkins

 

[gjensen]

That is what they are, or they are related.

 

[hellbender]

I'm sure you folks are right...haven't seen Ariel to ask her. Some of the ones I saw on the net didn't look quite as ugly as the ones down the road but when I saw them, none of them could have weighed more than 30 or 40 pounds. When Ariel said they got 'substantially larger' than a hundred pounds, I think she was understating the facts, based upon the pics I saw...some were over one thousand pounds....that's a lot of chicken, goat and hog feed...and she's got 4 big hills of them, about 5 feet apart and the vines are already joining together. She could have placed them 10 feet apart and no space would be wasted.

We've cut our gardens by about 1/3rd this year and will still be giving lots of stuff away. Our helpers (Mrs. Betty and her daughter, Sara) will carry off loads of stuff and that's fine.... they do at least half the work. They give bunches of stuff to their "Church Family", many of whom have very little and I don't mind that either.

They won't be getting any pumpkins, I don't think.

 

[Beer can]

I think they are considered a 'squash' pumpkin and good for pies. We grew 63 small pie pumpkins last year on just four plants and almost as many butternut squash, and eight large jackolantern pumkins. We left some on our porch that froze and rotted this winter. Now I have them growing all over the place, must be chipmunks replanted them for me before I cleaned them up Lol.

 

[gevshiba]

I'm sure you folks are right...haven't seen Ariel to ask her. Some of the ones I saw on the net didn't look quite as ugly as the ones down the road but when I saw them, none of them could have weighed more than 30 or 40 pounds. When Ariel said they got 'substantially larger' than a hundred pounds, I think she was understating the facts, based upon the pics I saw...some were over one thousand pounds....that's a lot of chicken, goat and hog feed...and she's got 4 big hills of them, about 5 feet apart and the vines are already joining together. She could have placed them 10 feet apart and no space would be wasted.

We've cut our gardens by about 1/3rd this year and will still be giving lots of stuff away. Our helpers (Mrs. Betty and her daughter, Sara) will carry off loads of stuff and that's fine.... they do at least half the work. They give bunches of stuff to their "Church Family", many of whom have very little and I don't mind that either.

They won't be getting any pumpkins, I don't think.

I'm not sure those pumpkins have any real use other than "show" pumpkins. Not that they can't be fed, but they are grown to win contests. I'm being too lazy right now to go look it up to confirm that. I was given some small ones last year for my birds. I was told the seeds are expensive, so I saved some. I sent some to my sister and gave a few to a friend. I still have some that I hope to plant someday. The skin was so tender on those pumpkins, the birds ate everything. They usually don't eat all the skin on the carving pumpkins (at least mine don't). I was given some yellow pumpkins too and the birds liked those a lot. I saved those seeds too.