My First time growing pumpkins:
All of the pumpkins didn't get ripe.
1. will they ripen?
2. should I leave them in the garden hooked to the vine for a while yet?
3. best way to store them?
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You said you had a frost, if it was a very light one and none are forcast for a few days I would only pick the orange ones off. I store them in a very large paper box with 7-8 sheets of newsprint on the bottom or on newsprint on the floor in the laundry room (downstairs basement). Some would store in root cellar, so would cook them up and freeze them for later use, if you are going to eat them. As for leaving them on the vine with it out of the ground I have never tried that so, I can't tell you maybe someone else has tried it. Note, a friend places them on straw in a box. Make sure they don't touch each other in anycase.
You did good, Dave!
I've had jack o'lantern pumpkins that failed to turn orange before frost. (cool nights thru the growing season) Some of those ripened indoors, others rotted before Halloween
. Yours looks like it should be fine.
It was important for me to find an early-maturing variety. I've grown RockStar for about 5 years and they do what they need to do . . . for setting outside the door with a candle in them on the last day of October!!
About the best performing "pumpkin pie" pumpkin for my garden isn't a pumpkin at all. It is Burgess Buttercup squash. They have always given me delicious filling for Thanksgiving & Christmas pies!
Steve
I've had jack o'lantern pumpkins that failed to turn orange before frost. (cool nights thru the growing season) Some of those ripened indoors, others rotted before Halloween
. Yours looks like it should be fine.It was important for me to find an early-maturing variety. I've grown RockStar for about 5 years and they do what they need to do . . . for setting outside the door with a candle in them on the last day of October!!
About the best performing "pumpkin pie" pumpkin for my garden isn't a pumpkin at all. It is Burgess Buttercup squash. They have always given me delicious filling for Thanksgiving & Christmas pies!
Steve