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Pumpkins

We offer pumpkins for all of our fall decoration needs.
They literally come in all shapes and sizes. From jack-be-little
to dill’s Atlantic giant varieties, we have a pumpkin to fit your needs. We raise many mini, assorted jack-o-lantern, and giant pumpkins. You can choose a pumpkin from the rack or venture out into the patch and cut it off the vine by yourself. We also raise white, green, and buckskin pumpkins for your decoration needs.





Squash

A few of our most popular varieties are:

Acorn (green, orange or white) - an old favorite
Butternut - smooth and flavorful flesh
Buttercup - excellent flavor
Spaghetti - interior ‘noodles’ like spaghetti noodles
Sweet potato Squash - just like the real thing
Carnival - looks like a striped acorn; smooth flesh
Delicata - colorful with fine grained; sweet flesh
Turk’s turban
Sweet Lightening - pale yellow and orange stripes;
good for decorating; great eating
Sweet Dumpling - colorful; acorn shape; sweet flesh
Hubbard - tear drop shaped; flesh is orange; fine texture
and flavor
Jumbo Pink Banana - thick; fine grained; light orange flesh; delicious flavor and makes the best pumpkin pie







Baking Squash


Basic Instructions:
Cut squash in half, remove seeds. Place in baking dish skin side up in about 1” water.
Bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until tender. Remove from oven and fill each cavity with 1 tbs. brown sugar, 1 tsp. butter, salt, and pepper to taste. Continue to bake for 10 minutes.

Variation:
Bake as directed, fill each cavity with brown sugar and seasoned sausage. Return to oven, bake 20 minutes.

Microwave:
Prepare as directed. Setting on high for 4-6 minutes
or until tender, fill cavity as above, return for 2 minutes.

Diet:
Bake as directed, salt lightly and serve.

 
   
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