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7:46 pm
April 8, 2009
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Pete's right! but all the others sound good too!
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9:20 pm
April 8, 2009
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Pete said:
Would be willing to bet (if I did that sort of thing) that she is talking about the jelly roll type of thing with a cream cheese filling. But a muffin with cream cheese in the middle would work. Or a sweet roll with pumpkin and cream cheese worked in somehow…
Meanwhile, pumpkin is one of those things that is soooo cheap, easy, and consistent from a can, and so often superior to the home canned variety, that it is not really worth all the energy and time to cook it at home. Especially if you have to buy the pumpkins.
My Gawd but you are a woman of Wisdom! I will never buy a pumpkin again!
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10:56 pm
April 8, 2009
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And you can get the can with the spices already in it too! The easier, the better!
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10:59 pm
April 8, 2009
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I have to draw the line there. I CAN add my own spices! LOL!
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11:05 pm
April 8, 2009
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GeorgiaZ
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HA! Depends who Im making it for!
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8:32 am
April 9, 2009
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Like I tell the hubby, "when your income earning potential drops below your life insurance policy, don't eat the mushrooms" jk.
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10:12 pm
April 9, 2009
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Ok…found them…I bought pumpkin seeds today…sugar pumpkin…
Ohhh I said I would NOT…oops.
When my father inlaw and brother in law are going home (sunday) I will start my seed indoors.
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4:06 pm
April 10, 2009
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i grew a kind of small pumpkin last year, maybe i will go bigger this year 
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7:13 pm
April 10, 2009
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Am thinking that a pumpkin might be the perfect thing to plant in the new planter, aka a used up grill! Have some squash seeds sprouting which may go into it. The blossoms are so pretty. But, a pumpkin would really be nice, and an instant fall decoration…
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8:42 pm
April 10, 2009
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Oh that's a really good idea, Pete……instant fall, no need to change out!
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6:14 am
April 14, 2009
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A lot of winter squash can be used instead of pumkins for baking. Hubbard is better than pumpkin and so is butter cup. Both are sweeter and less stringy.
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6:55 pm
September 29, 2009
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Flatlander
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HELP…. as you might remember i bought sugar pumkin seeds this spring…(if you don't read older posts)
They are doing great….really, I counted 15 for sure, but it is hard to count, because they are still green..and that is my cry for help about.
We had a little bit of frost yesterdaymorning…they survived although the leaves/vines didn't.
Now we expect more frost end of this week and the pumpkins are still not ripe….can i pick them and let them ripe in the house?
I was/am so proud of my garden this year..everything is in exept for 3 (HUGE) jack o lanterns and my sugar pumpkins.
(oh and a few rows potatoes..but frost won't do them any harm, they are still in the ground )
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7:13 pm
September 29, 2009
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I didn't know the answer to this, so I went searching……
http://www.vegetablegardener.c…..all-garden
Which makes sense, as here in Michigan there are still pumpkins in the field at Halloween, well beyond our first frosts!
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10:16 pm
September 29, 2009
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Yes but our neighber said they expect 22F (-5.5C) and IF that happens…should I bring them in the house? and if I do..will they ripe, that site doesn't give me the answer either.
The vines and leaves are black now already…..from yesterday.
Sorry just a bit nervous, don't want my first succes in pumpkins go to waist
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10:24 pm
September 29, 2009
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If you scroll down that page it says that pumpkins are very frost hardy and fine to 28 degrees and lower. I would cover them with sheets or even better a tarp to insulate a bit on colder nights and remove the covering early the next morning.
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12:07 am
September 30, 2009
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I know I read that too, but if you look at my post above yours…we are expecting 22F
The patch is to big to cover (or we have to go without blankets that night ) that is the problem.
I gues I have to hope for the best…it is not the first time that the weatherman is wrong.
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5:40 am
September 30, 2009
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Well, 22F is getting pretty cold! They are calling for killing frost here tonight, too! Out to get everything off that I can today!
Here's another site………..they can be ripened off the vine!
http://www.pumpkinnook.com/how…..pening.htm
Good Luck! Keep us posted on how this goes! It would be horrible for all those pumpkins to go to the frost!
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7:58 am
September 30, 2009
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Pete
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My guess (with 52 on that being no expert thing!) would be that if the vines are dead anyway there would be no advantage to leaving them in the garden. A dead vine won't be taking any nutrition to the pumpkin, right?
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9:04 am
September 30, 2009
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CindyP
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From reading, cuz I'm with 52 on the no expert thing here also, the heat (from the sun) is what ripens them with ventilation. They have to be to a certain stage, though, or they may never turn orange. It seems the sugar ones take longer to get to that stage. So leaving them in the garden is really the best, but if it's going to FREEZE (and they're going to die anyways), you might as well bring them in the house and go that route. It's not going to hurt a thing.
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1:14 pm
September 30, 2009
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Pete
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Besides, once they freeze outside, they are going to turn to mush anyway…
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