Baby Bear Pumpkins have rich orange coloured rind, with a handle about 3 inches (7 ½ cm) long. The pumpkins grow to be 5 to 6 inches (13 to 15 cm) wide and 3 ½ to 4 inches (9 to 10 cm) tall, weighing 1 ½ to 2 pounds (700 to 900g.) They have finely-textured…
Seed Pumpkins
Eat It All Squash
Eat It All Squash has rind with green and white stripes, and very sweet tasting flesh. The hulless seeds are good roasted. The vines grow out to 5 feet (1 ½ metres.) History Notes Eat It All Squash was known as early as 1963, when it was listed in the spring catalogue of Farmer Seed…
Gleisdorfer Naked Seeded Pumpkin
Gleisdorfer Naked Seeded Pumpkin is a pumpkin grown for its hull-less seeds, which are pressed into pumpkin oil.The pumpkins are pale orange with mottled green stripes, and grow to be 2.7 to 5.4 kg (6 to 12 pounds.) The pumpkin flesh itself is pretty tasteless and not worth eating, but it can be fed to…
Hamlet Squash
Hamlet Squash is a squash grown for its hull-less seeds, which are pressed into pumpkin oil. The seeds range in colour from white to light-green. There are not many seeds per squash, but there is a high oil yield per seed. The squash is round, though a bit flattened on top. It has a mottled…
Kakai Pumpkins
Kakai Pumpkin is a pumpkin grown for its large, dark-green hull-less seeds, which are used as snack seed. The seeds are good tasting both raw and roasted. The pumpkins are round in shape. The relatively soft rind ripens from shades of green to broken, mottled blackish-green stripes on a orangish-yellow background. They will weigh 2.25…
Lady Godiva Pumpkins
Lady Godiva Pumpkins are grown for their edible seeds, which are hull-less. The pumpkins are squat, with green markings on a yellowish background. If left too long before harvesting, the green stripes will fade. They will weigh about 6 pounds (2.7 kg.) The pale flesh is not good eating; it is very stringy. The hull-less…
Little Greenseed Pumpkins
Little Greenseed Pumpkins are grown for their hull-less, medium-dark green seeds, which are used as a snack seed. The seeds are usually plump and can be eaten raw or roasted. The pumpkins are round, with a stout handle on them. They have a tough but thin light-orange rind with flecks in the colour. Each pumpkin…
Olinka Pumpkin
Olinka is a pumpkin grown for its hull-less seeds, which are pressed into pumpkin oil. The plant is a semi-bush type. History Notes Olinka Pumpkin was developed at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad, Serbia. It was registered in 1992. Sources Berenji, Janos. Breeding, Production, and Utilization of Oil Pumpkin in…
Prostate Squash
Prostate Squash is a squash grown for its hull-less seeds, which are used as snack seed. The seeds are medium-large sized, and light-green in colour. The rind of the pumpkin is orange and green. The plant is a vine-type squash plant.
Pumpkin Oil
Pumpkin Oil is an oil extracted from pumpkin seeds. In south-eastern Austria, in the area called “Styria” (or “Steiermark” in German), farmers have developed a variety of pumpkin whose seeds contain a sweet, nutty tasting oil known as “Kürbiskernöl.” The pumpkins don’t grow much larger than 12 inches (30 cm) wide. Each pumpkin will have…
Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin Seeds © Denzil Green In Eastern Europe, certain types of pumpkins are grown especially for their seeds to be made into oil. The pumpkins are squished by machines right in the field, the seeds extracted, and the pumpkins discarded right back onto the fields to be used as fertilizer. In North America, pumpkins are…
Rankenloser Pumpkin
Rankenloser Pumpkin is a pumpkin grown for its hull-less seeds, which are pressed into pumpkin oil. The seeds can also be used as a snack seed; they are good roasted. The plant is a semi-bush type. The tall, oval-shaped pumpkins are a dark, speckled green with orange stripes.
Seed Pumpkins
Seed Pumpkins are pumpkins whose food value is the seed in them, rather than the flesh of the pumpkins. The focus is the overall weight and quality of the seeds that can be harvested from the pumpkin: it is not size of the pumpkin, nor the weight of its flesh, so much as weight of…
Slovenska Golica Pumpkin
Slovenska Golica Pumpkin is a pumpkin grown for its hull-less, dark green seeds, which are pressed into pumpkin oil. The pumpkins are round, and orangey-yellow in colour with green mottled stripes. The orange pumpkin flesh itself is pretty tasteless and not worth eating, but it can be fed to livestock, etc. There is a semi-hollow…
Streaker Pumpkins
Streaker Pumpkins are round, with deep orange rind. They grow to be 9 inches (23 cm) wide and tall, and weigh around 8 pounds (3 ½ kg.) They are fairly multi-purpose pumpkins. They can be used as a Jack-O’-Lantern type for carving or display, or be used for pies. As well, their hulless seeds are…
Streaker Pumpkins
Streaker Pumpkins are round, with deep orange rind. They grow to be 9 inches (23 cm) wide and tall, and weigh around 8 pounds (3 ½ kg.) They are fairly multi-purpose pumpkins. They can be used as a Jack-O’-Lantern type for carving or display, or be used for pies. As well, their hulless seeds are…
Triple Treat Pumpkins
Triple Treat Pumpkins have smooth, dark orange smooth skin that is easy to carve. They will weigh 8 to 10 pounds (3 ½ to 4 ½ kg.) They have thick, deep orange coloured flesh and hulless seeds. They can be used for pie, used as an ornamental or used for snack seeds, thus its name….