[Rich72]

Aft'noon. Chopped one of my pumpkins up today to make some lovely soup. Inside must have been 1000 seeds. I scooped them all out and have laid them out on kitchen paper in the hope that they will dry out and be usable come spring. Do I need to do anything else with them?

[DD.]

Yes.

Keep your fingers crossed that they were not an F1 variety and also that they have not cross-pollinated with any other nearby cucurbits, such as courgettes.

[Aunt Sally]

They are very nice in muesli

[arugula]

DD, you have a picture somewhere showing the consequences of cross-pollination, don't you?

Auntie, I agree I always put pumpkin seeds in my homemade muesli.

[DD.]

If you mean this one:



I've posted it enough times and better not do it again.

D'oh!

[arugula]

That's the one. Newer forum members may well not have seen it...

[Stevens706]

I saved seed last year and they must have crossed, I now have large courgette shapped pumkins, but not multicouloured like DD's

[DD.]

You never know what you may get!

[sunshineband]

Unless you plan to grow 1000 plants, you could try roasting them on a tray in the oven... lovely sprinkled with sea salt 

[Steve_LF]

I saved seeds from last year an got a wonderful mix of courgettes, marrows and pumpkins.   

Also, found a recipe for roasted pumpkin seed brittle - WOW that was nice, wish I'd have saved the recipe, but I'll be finding something like it through google.

[angelavdavis]

If you mean this one:



I've posted it enough times and better not do it again.

D'oh!

They are pretty - what did they taste like?

[DD.]

I don't know!

They were plants I gave away to a neighbouring plot holder. They were "sold" to him as trailing marrows.

He said they tasted OK, but I never did find out how he cooked them. He had to give up the plot due to ill health, hopefully nothing to do with eating them.

[Elmarto]

I looked up the recipe for pumpkin seed brittle and made some after carving my pumpkins. It is fantastic!