This is an excellently flavored pumpkin that will keep right through Winter. It shouldn't be variable in appearance, or waisted, as a pre...Read Morevious commentator found, it's always a uniform gray color. I grow it every year, as I haven't found a better pumpkin for keeping. It is a greedy plant. I've never beaten the yield I got one year from a plant that self seeded in my compost heap, that had had a trailer of horse manure added..
Grows well and easily in central England but does not achieve the weights quoted by growers in warmer climates.
This Aus...Read Moretralian variety stores extremely well and is an excellent tasting winter squash.
My original seed packet came from Yates Seed in Australia. This produced quite variable squashes. Some looked similar to Jarrahdale, others like a grey giant Buttercup. Frequently a narrowed 'waist' is displayed.
This is an excellently flavored pumpkin that will keep right through Winter. It shouldn't be variable in appearance, or waisted, as a pre...Read More
Said to have come from Australia about 1932. Fruits weigh 12-20 lbs when fully mature.
Grows well and easily in central England but does not achieve the weights quoted by growers in warmer climates.
This Aus...Read More
Large pumpkin, dark slate grey heavily ribbed skin. Sweet, deep orange flesh. Top keeping pumpkin. 100-140 days.