A Tropical Black Pumpkin | The Survival Gardener

4 years in the past, we left our residence within the sunny Caribbean.
Down there we grew tropical pumpkins in numerous sizes, shapes and colours. Each wet season we put in fairly a couple of.
They had been vigorous, dealing with the rain and the humidity excellently.
A few of them had been fairly stunning.

One explicit pumpkin we discovered was bumpy and virtually completely black.
We saved seeds. Then misplaced them for 4 years.
I assumed they had been gone till this spring, when I discovered a bit of baggie of seeds and realized what they had been. They hadn’t been refrigerated – and it had been 4 years! – so I assumed they had been lifeless.

Hoping for the very best, I planted some within the greenhouse… and virtually each single seed germinated!
The children transplanted them into the Grocery Row Backyard throughout a household work day… they usually stored rising!
Now the vines are all over the place, and we simply obtained our first black pumpkin.

I feel the inexperienced will flip extra monochrome because it ages. This one broke off the vine by itself and I discovered it within the backyard yesterday.
We would have the beginning of a brand new selection right here. It’s definitely distinctive. What a blessing to have it truly produce after being misplaced for 4 years.

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4 years in the past, we left our residence within the sunny Caribbean. Down there we grew tropical pumpkins in numerous sizes, shapes and colours. Each wet season we put in fairly a couple of. They had been vigorous, dealing with the rain and the humidity excellently. A few of…