FREE: Queensland Blue - an amazing pumpkin from 'Down Under'

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This is an amazingly delicious heirloom winter squash from Australia.

It came from an organic local grower, and I've been admiring it for several months now (these squash are very good keepers) - kinda hated to cut into it, but there was this Christmas potluck yesterday, and so....whack!

[What I did was hollow it out and bake it for a while, then I stuffed it with apples, cranberries, walnuts, etc and baked it some more...It was great: a good recipe, but it was perfected by this squash - very dense, sweet, almost nutty flesh. You can see in the pix how thick it is, and what an incredible rich orange...Imagine the jack-o-lantern possibilities - assuming you'd want to squander such a delicious squash on mere decorations.]

Here's what the seedsmen say: "This superb winter keeper from ‘down under’ has thick, gray-green skin, deep ribbing, and sweet orange flesh that is wonderful for baking, soups and pies. The vigorous vines need room to roam."

Here's some growing advice from the internet:
"Most pumpkins or winter squash need lots of room to grow. Not necessarily where the roots are located, but enough room to allow the plant to send out runners on which the pumpkin grows. The great thing about pumpkins is that the vines will grow vertically as they have tendrils that grip on to objects really tightly. You don't need to train them upwards, they just do it all by themselves. However to promote lateral growth on which the female flowers of the pumpkin develops, you need to pinch off the growing tip of the runner after it reaches about fifteen feet long. This really does help to increase the plant's output."

This auction is for 10 fresh seed (as you can see, they're huge)...Note that this is a locally grown squash, not the product of a seed farm, so there's no guarantee that there won't be some other squash genes in there. I bought it to get the seeds because I intend to grow these next summer, and see what happens!