Buy Austrian Hulless Pumpkin seeds NZ –

Grow your own edible pumpkin seeds in your home garden!
A unique pumpkin, the flesh of the Austrian hulless pumpkin (also known as Styrian hulless) is edible, though it’s primarily grown for its hulless seeds.
The flesh a little watery and not particularly flavorful, though it can be grated and used as a replacement for zuchinni in quiche or or zuchinni cake.

Edible pumpkin seeds are also know as Pepitas and can be dried and stored to then be eaten raw, toasted in a pan, or roasted with tamari for a delicious, nutritious snack.

Buy Austrian Hulless Pumpkin seeds in NZ –
Seed pack contains 18 seeds in composable zip-lock bag with instructions to sow.
Plus a plant specific info sheet; with planting tips, growing care, fruiting / harvest seasons.

• SEEDS:
  18
• SOWING TIME:
  Later Winter / Early Spring.
  Do not plant near courgettes or plants from a similar family or they will cross pollinate.
• HARVEST TIME:
  Harvest when the pumpkins get yellow stripes. Leave for a few weeks before removing seed.
• CLIMATE:
  Austrian Hulless Pumpkins require warmer temperatures for germination and growth. Grow through the summer months, in a sunny site with compost rich soil.
• BOTANICAL NAME:
  Cucurbita Pepo
• TYPE:
  Heirloom, Open Pollinated
• LIFECYCLE
  Tender Annual
• USES:
  Once dried, seeds can be eaten raw, toasted in a pan, or roasted with tamari for a delicious, nutritious snack.
  Include in a scroggin mix. Substitute the flesh in recipes where you use zuchinni or similar squash.

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