Pumpkins for seeds

[seasprout]

Hello sue, iv'e just received a copy of dt brown suppliment with my order of seeds. They have listed a pumpkin variety called Triple Treat, which it states, "The edible shell-less seeds taste like cashew nuts"

Recomended for toasting seeds.

Its code is 2268. :-)

[Sue]

Seasprout
I like the sound of the cashew nut similarity, mine were more almond tasting, I'll get a catalogue, thanks for the tip.
Sue

[jerseybean]

I visited google yesterday for pumpkin carving stencils. Wow there are some extremely sick and crazy carvings available. There were also recipes for roasting seeds on numerous sites. They did not differentiate which type of pumpkins they came from so I assumed they are all edible.

[Crazy Chickie]

I'm pretty sure you can roast any seeds, nuts and kernels. I do mine in a heavy based, dry frying pan, no oil or anything. Put it on hot, add the seeds and give them a shuggle every couple of minutes, like Mrs Dobby said they can burn really quick so keep an eye on them. If you eat alot of seeds with your tea (I'm veggie so I add them to almost everything) you can roast up a good mix of your favorates and keep them in a jar ready for use. They wouldn't keep well for a long time but mine are fine for about a week.

[Waffler]

I do mine in a dry frying pan too. Aren't they a pain to prepare though; taking off all the membrane and shelling...

[Earthbabe]

I'd probably just eat it whole.

[Mrs Dobby]

To easily remove the membrane, dry them on kitchen roll, then once dry just rub between two pieces of kitchen roll or pop into a tall jar and swirl / agitate with your fingers and they should easily come off!

[Earthbabe]

Roasted some seeds a few days ago. They did very good impersonation of popcorn leaping every where. I think because of that they may be a little underdone but how do I tell?

[FoxHillGardener]

The pumpkin seeds I get in the shops are green, without their husks. I dry fry them in a frying pan with a lid giving them a good shake every now and again. They go a nice toasty brown and are good in salads. Do the same with (shelled ) sunflower seeds and hemp seeds, which pop like mad.

When you roast/fry the ones you collect yourself does the husk/casing open up so you can get the seeds out?? Is that what the popping you got was, Earthbabe?

[Earthbabe]

It didn't appear to be as the ones throwing themselves out the pan were still whole and white with brown toasty bits on.

[bugs]

Hello sue, iv'e just received a copy of dt brown suppliment with my order of seeds. They have listed a pumpkin variety called Triple Treat, which it states, "The edible shell-less seeds taste like cashew nuts"

We tried this this season and were very pleased with them. The flesh was fine - a little fibrous and pumpkinny where we prefer dense smooth flesh - and perfectly useable for soup/curry (OK roasted but no competition for a proper squash) and it did produce a generous amount of naked seed which were extremely tasty. I hope to grow them again (a bit better!) this year, but will get seed from Wallis Seeds (used Edwin Tucker last year - they seem fairly widely available).

[ilex]

I've tried growing pumpkins for the last two years and have never got any fruit before middle of november and they are about the size of a very small cauliflower and..green! although the description was deep orange and the size of footballs! Is there someway of getting fruit earlier or bigger fruit?

[Alison]

I've tried growing pumpkins for the last two years and have never got any fruit before middle of november and they are about the size of a very small cauliflower and..green! although the description was deep orange and the size of footballs! Is there someway of getting fruit earlier or bigger fruit?

They sound like immature fruit, it could be that you are simply starting off your plants too late - are you starting off our seeds indoors in trays before hardening off for outside? Also, where do you live, etc, I would have thought that the length of days / warmth etc would make a difference.

[ilex]

I grew them inside a greenhouse for a couple of weeks then planted them out about april/may is that too late?

[Poledragon]

Lady Godiva is listed in this years Heritage Seed Library catalogue, and it states "an attractive plant with large leaves, trailing golden flowers and flavoursome flesh. The shiny dark green seeds are also tasty."

Sue, did you try eating one of them before consigning them to the compost?

We always roast our seeds - straight out of the pumpkin/squash, onto a baking tray whilst still slippery and sprinkled with salt before roasting. You can tell when they're done by the smell. I think leaving the pumpkin juice on them makes them even tastier.