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Baby pumpkin

Baby pumpkin

€4,09 EUR
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Regular pumpkins are too big for a vegetable garden container. This species produces fairly small fruits and is therefore suitable for a climbing frame.

Delicious pumpkin with rather small fruits. That's why you can easily lead it up on a climbing frame. Ideal for vegetable garden containers.

  • Species Name: Baby Bear
  • Family: fruit
  • Number per compartment: 1 at the climbing frame
  • Height: 200 cm and above
  • Sowing: from the end of April to the end of May.
  • Germination time: between 15 and 20°C in 7 to 21 days
  • Time to harvest: from 15 weeks
  • Sunlight: needs a sunny spot

What is special about our Baby pumpkin?

Pumpkin plants grow huge and take up a lot of space. Therefore, they are usually not suitable for cultivation in a vegetable garden box.

This Baby Pumpkin gives quite small fruits. That is why you can lead the plant up through a climbing frame and it takes up much less space.


Sow and grow baby pumpkin

Pumpkins cannot withstand the cold and should therefore be sown indoors at the end of April/beginning of May.

First pre-germinate the seeds and then put them in a pot with half MM-mix and pre-sowing vermiculite. Grow the plant indoors and place it outside in the container near a climbing frame at the end of May.

Pumpkins need a lot of nutrition. Therefore, before planting, work some extra MM nutrition through the box and give some more in July.

Note: this plant also tends to grow enormously and takes up a large part of the climbing frame. Therefore, place it next to a box with snow peas or pole beans, both are excellent neighbours.

You can find the step-by-step sowing and growing instructions for Baby Pumpkin in the Easy Vegetable Garden app. You will also find a detailed description in the knowledge base.

What do you use Baby pumpkin for?

This species gives a large number of pumpkins with a diameter of about 15 to 20 cm.

They have nice firm flesh and are ideal for making pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup and for grilling. You don't have to peel them.

You can roast the almost skinless seeds very well as a snack.

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