Pumpkins and Summer Squash

Cinderella pumpkins, patty pan squash and lemon cucumbers, in three consecutive rows

It is a little early to be talking about pumpkins, considering they won’t be on the list of produce until October. But, everyday, when I harvest summer squash and zucchini, I walk by a row of Cinderella and Kakai Hulless pumpkins and I look forward to October. I have grown the Cinderella pumpkins before. They are a beautiful pumpkin, both decorative and good to eat. The Kakai Hulless is a new one for me this year. It is a pumpkin that is grown mostly for the seeds, which are hulless (as the name indicates) and make a great snack, but it is also decorative, with green and orange stripes.

I found this Cinderella pumpkin in the patty pan squash.

They are doing very well so far this year. I enjoy watching their progress. Some of the Cinderella pumpkins look like they will be quite large.  When I was cutting some patty pan squash, I saw a strange looking one and thought it was just some odd mutation of a patty pan. A few days later, I realized the Cinderella pumpkins had grown into the patty pan squash and it was a Cinderella pumpkin! Sometimes a stray seed does get into a seed packet or there is a mutation/hybrid of somekind.

This cucumber is growing among my dark green Marketmores.

I have this cucumber growing among my dark green Marketmore cucumbers this year. The farm is keeping me on my toes.

A Cinderella pumpkin

A Kakai Hulless, starting to get its orange stripes

One day’s harvest of zucchini and summer squash