My pumpkins are looking strange, I grew these from pink pumpkin seed that I had saved from a pink pumpkin that my sister had given to me a couple of seasons ago. I grew these pumpkins last season as I live in Australia and we're just coming into spring here. Now maybe someone here that understands pumpkins can explain to me why I had 2 completely different looking pumpkins on one vine, it has me stumped as I'm not familiar at all with how a pumpkin vine works. At first when I saw there were 2 kinds of pumpkins on the vine I cut off the green ones but they kept on developing on that vine so I thought maybe I should just let them all be. I harvested around 15 pumpkins that year from about 3 vines from seeds I'd saved from the gifted pink pumpkin. Did you know that the young pumpkin leaves are edible and really quite delicious, you could also dehydrate them to use in your soups and stews later on, just blitz the dried leaves. When the leaves cover the flowers just cut them out of the way so's the flowers can get full sun on them to develop into pumpkins.
This is the pink pumpkin my sister gifted me.
So this is the green one.
This is the pink one, how strange is that or maybe it's normal.
Did you know young pumpkin leaves are edible and taste really good?
Oopsy that's one of my pretty grevillea flowers that my pumpkins were growing around.
My plants loved climbing up the trellis.
