(Cucurbita muschata)
When squash and pumpkins are covered with squash bugs and mildew this plant just keeps growing. Bugs, borers, and disease do not slow this vine down. It loves sun, heat, humidity, water, and LOTS of space to ramble. It will climb fences and trees.
The pumpkins are tan in color, roundish, slightly ribbed, about 7 inches in diameter, and weight a few pounds. The fruit are tan in color, the flesh is orange.
EatTheWeeds.com states: "Boiled or baked, used as a vegetable, dried and ground into a flour for bread, young shoots and leaves cooked as greens, flowers with pistils removed cooked and eaten. They can also be stuffed. Seeds edible, can be roasted or hulled and ground into a gruel."
Our favorite way to eat Seminole Pumpkin is to cut in half, bake it cut side down, then puree the cooked flesh with chicken stock to make a delicious soup. Seminole Pumpkin can also be dried or stored whole for up to a year in cool temperatures.
The strangest thing about this pumpkin is that it sets down roots from the vine. If a portion of the vine is severed, the rest of the vine continues to grow. I learned this after trying to save my clothes line from these vines.
