Pumpkins!
- Deidre Reynolds
- Feb 28, 2016
- 1 min read
The pumpkin patch has been a great source of wonder for the students.
Size, colour and failures have all been in conversations.
This beautiful pumpkin is called 'Turks Turban', once it's fully mature, it appears to look like the traditional headwear of a turkish man.
It goes through many colour and shape changes in it's growth.
We also planted 'Golden Nugget' pumpkins and 'Giant Atlantic Pumpkins.
Pumpkins will cross-pollinate; thanks to the wonderful work of bees, so this autumns harvest will produce a true crop, but we won't be able to save seeds from this fruit for next springs plantings as the seeds will produce a 'hybrid' - a mixture of all three varieties that we grew.
Luckily we have seeds saved that will produce 'true' fruit!
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