Pumpkin ‚Sweet Mama’

Ripening

mittelfrüh

Harvest

Week 35 to 39

Vigour

mittel

Growth habit

halbrankend

Origin

Japan

Introduced

1979

Use

Kochen, Lager, Sauce

Disease resistance

Mehltau: mittel

About this variety

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A high yielding F1 variety of the buttercup type with dark green, flattened fruit of one to two kilos. It grows more compactly and only semi trailing, which makes it easier to handle in smaller beds than the long giant vines. The orange flesh is dry, sweet and chestnut like, one of the best tasting culinary squashes, and it is ready to harvest as early as mid season. Being a hybrid it produces many uniform fruits early on, but it is not suitable for saving your own seed.

Very sweet, dry flesh with a dense, almost creamy chestnut note.

Care and diseases

Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.