I found great information about pumpkin varieties at All About Pumpkins. Two other sites with great info are Haunted Bay and Intervale Farm both have a great list showing a range in the varieties of pumpkins and squash. Sometimes what we call a pumpkin is technically a squash.
Many times I will buy a variety of different ones, wash them, buff and polish them up with a little vaseline and then after they have been on display we will cook them up and eat them.
Would you like to see my favorites?
The Lakota Varieties:
Blue Lakota
Casper
Blue Max
Fairytale
Green Hubbard
Cinderella
Kabocha
If you like to decorate with a variety of colors or want to decorate a girls PINK room for Fall, here is the pumpkin for you:
ONE TOO MANY
French Cheese
Turban
Red Warty
Crown Prince
Cucurbita Moschata
Piebald Tropical Pumpkins
‘This towering display stems from an Australian “Crown Prince” pumpkin base, which is topped with a scarlet maxima pumpkin, known for its brilliant rind, a French cheese pumpkin called “Musquee de Provence,” a pallid “Baby Boo,” and an ornamental gourd topper.
stack of pumpkins, squash and gourds
White Lumina Pumpkin
Green Apple Gourd
Blue Jarrahdale Pumpkins
Warted Gourds
Rhoda from Southern Hospitality showcased some amazing pumpkins, squash and gourds as well.
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Thanks so much for the information on the pumpkins and squash. I have been looking for this information for along time.
We bought some squash mix and it produced, among others, a couple we never saw before. So I looked here and found it, I feel better it’s not a triffid. We LOVE patty pans and look for new colors etc since they popped out of a compost heap we had. This year the compost is producing, I think, zukes. Go figure. Squash are so much fun….on this street in the countryside of Saratoga Springs we have a neighbor who quietly produces multi-hundred pound Hubbards almost every year! My hero! 😎
Thanks for all you do!
Sincerely,
will shirley
thanks for this post, I always wonder what kind of pumpkin I am buying, love all of the above 😉
Thanks Shannon.
I always love getting some of the unique colored ones for Fall.