To be truthful, last year I had a single butternut pumpkin, which was about the size of a tennis ball. I think I planted my pumpkin plants too late and was too ambitious, planting half a dozen different varieties which came to nothing.
This year I only planted butternuts, though I was thwarted in my attempts to plant them early by nefarious snails, who ate my home grown seedlings twice before I caved in and bought a punnet of them and ringed them with ghastly (but effective) snail bait.
The other day I picked this first pumpkin and tonight I made soup with it which tasted like perfectly normal pumpkin soup, so I guess I got something right?
There are eight more of these babies still waiting on their vines out in the veggie patch :-)
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Very jealous. I ripped out my pumpkins in a fit of pique thinking they weren't setting any fruit and what did I find on the vine once I'd pulled it? 3 potential pumpkins on the end of one of its branches...there's a lesson there somewhere...
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