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- Throw a pumpkin on a concrete path it usually breaks open
and is the easy to cut up. Cook pumpkin whole in micro
10mins each side for medium ones. - Jan King, Whangarei.
- Pumpkins freeze well. Cut into meal
sized pieces, clean the pulp from the centres and freeze in plastic
bags. Do not thaw before using. Straight into the water or roasting
dish for cooking. Alternatively, pulp the pumpkins – freeze in ice
cream containers, and use for soup or jam as the time permits –
G.B.
Growing
pumkin
Did
you know the world's largest pumpkin (grown in 2010 and entered
in the Ginness Book of Records) was grown in Wisconsin, USA. The winner said his secret is a precise
mixture of sunshine, rain, cow manure, fish emulsion and
seaweed. New Zealand's
largest pumpkin is 540kg and was grown by a man in Taupo. See NZ
Herlad article >>>. That smashed the previous
record of 497kg held by John McKay who said 5
tonnes of horse poo and seaweed was the secret behind his giant
success. Interested in
growing giant pumpkins? Here's an excellent site www.giantpumpkins.co.nz To visit the Mapua Giant Pumpkin Competition website click
here >>>
- Well the secret
formulas behind the largest pumpkin storoes says it all -
lots of horse poo, fish fertiliser and seaweed.
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