Long time commentor and reader, Joe Molnar, sent us a small packet of pumpkin seeds harvested from his bounty. We planted all five in the same hill this spring. One sprouted and flowered. After the flower turned to fruit we pinched off the remaining flowers. This is the result.
Thank you Joe, however the question raised at the top still stands. What now?
I just measured it on my screen,the pumpkin is approximately four inches long by three inches wide,so it’s too small for a jack O’ Lantern.
Maybe make a tiny pie?
Next? Pie! Lots and lots of pie.
Pumpkin pie, soup, cheesecake, muffins, ccokies, bread, roasted seeds….and the punkin’ beat goes on. YUM!
four inches long?
I’m guessing that monster weighs about 200 or more pounds.
If we guess the weight,
do we win a jar of jelly beans?
I don’t know, but whatever is growing inside is gonna be ug-lee!
Heavens no, Fearless. Maybe 20 lbs. The photo is cropped. 🙂 I don’t think SK. has optimal pumpkin weather. We probably shouldn’t have trimmed off the other flowers, we’d probably have more that size.
Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown..
I will address my response to Lance, because he posted the photo of the Atlantic Giant from my packet of seed form my secret seed Cross.
Your Atlantic Giant appears to be a mighty specimen, I trust it was not photoshopped!
A sister pumpkin from the same seed lot, died in a balcony pot here in Woodstock Ontario, while a third pumpkin managed to grow as a castaway on Highway road allowance in New Sarum Ontario, destined to decompose there without leaving any seed.
By all means Lance, save the seeds, from the beautiful Delisle Pumpkin, and for a wobbly “pop,” when I walk through Delisle on my mission, I will devulge the seed I crossed with the Atlantic Giant, and you or Kate McMillan can Market the Seeds as Hardy Saskatchewan Giant Pumpkins as opposed to Atlantic Giant.
Any how, thanks for the Pumpkin Update via Small Dead Animals blog, Lance, because now the whole world knows that Atlantic Giant / Crossed with (joe’s secret seed) pumpkins thrive on land, which covers miles deep Saskatchewan Potash and floating on Canadian oil sold cheaply to OBAMA via PIPELINE!
Seriously Lance, I Thank you for the Post!
Joe
Catapult.
Agreed on the pie. My wife makes the best pumpkin pie and muffins out of these giant pumpkins, the flesh is easy to carve out and freeze.
Dave Beresford
The giant pumpkins aren’t very good for cooking/baking as the inside flesh is very pale and grainy.
Best-est fun is to raise it to the top of the loader and drop it to see how many pieces it busts into…..
20lbs? It’s too small for a boat then.
http://www.canadacool.com/COOLFACTS/NOVA%20SCOTIA/WindsorPumpkinRace.html
I do hope that you ate the flowers! An Indian friend of mine says they are
excellent. He will actually pay farmers for the flowers.
Aside from that, well, enjoy the pumpkin pie!
Cut it half, paint it green and let Kory Sheets use it as a helmet for his swelled ego?
50 pies?
Make sure you add cinnamon, ginger, and allspice.
Niiiice pumpkin! 🙂
I saw one in Cayuga a couple days ago, it filled the box on a Ford pickup.
I’m thinking trebuchet. It’d be like hurling a piano. Think what it could do to a giant fan.
Lance – the pic doesn’t give alot of perspective. How big is this thing??
I’ve seen a 250 pounder in SW Sask!! Heat units here are high and we do have water you know! We had 75 bus per acre wheat this year!! Damned global warming.
I got a rock. 🙂
What now? How could you even ask that? As others have said, pumpkin pie, lots of it, and a piece every day, that is until Mayor Bloomberg arrests you.
It looks great Joe. Kind of bumpy and wrinkly like us old guys.
Send it to university, it can become a climate scientist.