Beginner Gardening: Need a good Georgia pumpkin variety, 1 by Farmerdill

Farmerdill wrote:
I do answer D-mail you know. Most pumpkins cultivars grow in Georgia, not as pretty maybe as those grown above the Mason Dixon line. They do need full sun and space. The Halloween (carving pumpkins) (the 15-20 lb orange ones) are not particularly good eating. Sorcerer is one of the better ones for Halloween decoration. Frosty and Big Autumn are short vine types and easier to deal with where space is a factor. But there are lots of others that do well in this area. Just grab a Twilley catalog and find out what the market growers are growing. I don't grow many of this type preferring C. Moschatas and C. Mixtas. The Halloween types are very susceptible to squash vine borer, so you have pay careful attention to them. The pickle worm arrives here around the first of July, so I have to plant pumpkins early or late. Early so that the rinds are hard enough to be non palatable when the pickle worms arrive or for the young pumpkins to arrive in early September after the pickle worms have left for the most part.