FREE: Long Island Cheddar Pumpkin Seeds

The listing, Long Island Cheddar Pumpkin Seeds has ended.

This auction is for 10 seeds.
The cheese pumpkin, famous for making pumpkin pies was available through many seed retailers through the 1800's and into the 1960's. But then suddenly, it disappeared. Some retailers listed the Kentucky Field or Dickinson pumpkin instead, which is also a moschata species and shares many similarities with the cheese except that they don't have the beauty of that pumpkin described by some, "like a flattened wheel of cheddar".

The cheese pumpkin is C. moschata just like the butternut, neck pumpkins and the calabaza squash that are featured in hispanic markets. Cheese pumpkins are not all the same. There is; in fact, as much variation in cheese pumpkins as in butternut squash. Yes, there is variation in butternuts! Cheese pumpkins are, according to Native Seed Search of Tuscon, AZ, one of the oldest squashes to be domesticated and selected for food and animal feed. The ripe pumpkin is nutrient rich and bright orange with beta carotene. Of all the squash, they have some of the smoothest flesh and lack the stringiness found; certainly better in quality than most pepo pumpkins; many lines are also known for their high sugar levels. They also have distinctive butternut qualities and even the tan coloration of the butternut squash in most cases.