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08 Jan 19, Mike (Australia - tropical climate)

For pumpkin it says April to Jul - I would plant April May.

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26 Dec 18, (Australia - temperate climate)

I am growing qld blue and have massed if vie but no flowers? Any clues??

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22 Dec 18, Nichole Stratton (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

Can you eat them unripe if they have been picked too soon?

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29 Dec 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Will have little taste.

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20 Dec 18, Ernest (South Africa - Semi-arid climate)

Are south african pumpkin seeds safe to eat? If yes,is it all vatie ties? Thank you! !

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19 Dec 18, Gerard (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate)

Is it safe to start growing butternut in January?

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12 Dec 18, Karen Cadle (New Zealand - temperate climate)

My squash is growning like a trifford do I just let it grow or would it pay to pinch it out

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13 Dec 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

You could do both depending on how many squash you have. I had a couple of cuies that had 3 flushes of cuies. If I nipped the vine I would have only had 18 cuies - in the end I had 48.

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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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