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04 Dec 18 Robyn (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

I live in Te Anau and wonder what is a faster maturing pumpkin variety?? We had a good crop of pumpkins growing last year, but a rogue frost in mid March killed off the plant and the pumpkin crop did not ripen, and the weather is only coming good now (early Dec) to plant.

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05 Dec 18 Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Look around some seed selling companies - email or phone them. Most times I see like 15-20 weeks to grow but which is early I don't know. Another way is to start the seeds early indoors or somewhere protected from the weather. You could start growing them in Oct say under lights. Sometimes nature throws us a big curve ball and stuffs it all up.

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09 Dec 18 (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

thanks

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