How to Grow Pumpkin at Home

• The pumpkins tear shaped seeds are planted in a mound in the garden.
• Add lots of compost to the mound.
• Four to six pumpkin seeds can be planted in each mound.
• Allow 3-4 meters between the mounds.
• The pumpkin trails and spreads itself out.
• They make a very good ground cover.

Companions (do well together)
• Pumpkins enjoy the company of Nasturtiums, Mint, Beans and Radish.
• Pumpkins love to grow under corn

Antagonists (don't do well together)
• Keep Potatoes away for Pumpkin, they are not good neighbors.

• The hard shell of the Pumpkin allows us to store it over a long period of time.
• Pumpkins spread their beautiful tendrils when they grow, which bear edible leaves and flowers and finally succulent fruit.
• You can pick pumpkin leaves and flowers and add to them into a salad, or cook them like spinach.
• Pumpkin can be baked, boiled, fried and roasted or eaten raw or made into soups, breads and fritters.
• Pumpkin ice cream and pumpkin jam are yummy treats.
• Raw pumpkin seeds have more nutritional benefits than roasted ones.
• Dried pumpkin seeds are great to nibble when hungry.
• Pumpkin seeds mixed with sunflower seeds, sesame, nuts and dried fruit are a beneficial healthy snack.

• Harvest young leaves and flowers from the pumpkin vine.
• Wash the leaves and flowers with cool water.
• Strip the spines off the leaves and stems (otherwise you will get a prickly tongue)
• Chop up one onion.
• Fry the onion lightly.
• Add the leaves and fry till tender.
• Sprinkle with soy sauce, salt and pepper.
• Add the chopped flowers and remove from the heat.
• Serve with cous cous, rice or fresh bread.

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