) I've decided it's just too difficult, especially in my small garden, to try to save pumpkin and squash seeds from year to year for growing.(yes, last resort would be to bag/tape closed the blossoms and hand-pollinate, but I'm not up to the extra task and would much rather see bees taking pollen baths in them
)So, of all those seeds -- WHICH tend to be good to eat? Are any large and worth cracking seeds edible? Are gourd (C. pepo) seeds edible too? -- Birdhouse and Bushel gourd seeds look completely different so I'm not really sure about those.
I just prepped a Spaghetti squash (C. pepo) for dinner, and it had meaty looking seeds just like pumpkins. So it was raw, but I cracked one open and tried it and it was pretty decent. Not as nutty maybe, but that might have been because it was fresh out of the fruit.
I had a store-bought small squash -- not delicata, but similar creamy color with orange stripes, shape was squat and lobed -- last week. This one had small seeds, but I dried them anyway, and I tried it just now. The seeds seemed almost too small to bother, but the flavor was outstanding... maybe worth the effort.
