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Default Canned pumpkin shortage?

On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:08:07 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:04:36 +0100, "Ophelia" >
>wrote:
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 12:11:31 +0100, "Ophelia" >
>> > wrote:
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>> >> I just grow regular ones, yellow or green. I've never seen a big round
>> >> one
>> >> like that.
>> >
>> > It's not big... 3-4 inches around at the most. 4 would be on the
>> > large side. They probably can get a lot bigger, just like an
>> > undiscovered zucchini grows into a marrow virtually overnight.
>> >
>> >> Was it not seedy?
>> >
>> > I'd say what I bought was less seedy than a regular oblong zucchini.

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>> Ok I don't let mine grow big enough to be seedy though.

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>Even the tiniest ones have seeds.


I grew some last year that hung clustered on a stem just like grapes.
They were very tasty -- bigger than a golf ball and smaller than a
billiard ball.
Janet US