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right to be called a pumpkin have more than twenty varieties of herbaceousannual plants that form powerful bushes or lashes and produce large, bark-covered fruits with flattened seeds in the core.
The very fruit of this plant is called pumpkin, and its shape, size, color and properties differ significantly from different varieties and varieties. Most of the naturally existing pumpkin genera originated from the countries of America, and some are still found only here.
But not many species are used for food all over the world. Among them is a hard-hitting or common variety, more popular in Europe, Asia and Russia. Americans are rightly proud of the giant pumpkin fruits reaching several hundred kilograms, and they also enjoy eating the sugary tender pulp of the nutmeg pumpkin with pleasure. This species in many countries is very valued for its nutritional and dietary properties, but it is extremely demanding to heat.
In addition to table varieties of pumpkin, pleasing gardeners with hundreds of varieties of different ripening terms, shape and size, man grows fodder and ornamental plants belonging to the pumpkin family.
In order to get decent yields from their beds and regularly, even in winter, include healthy flesh in the diet, it is useful to study pumpkin varieties, their descriptions and photos in the autumn, and choose a place for planting taking into account crop rotation.
Ordinary hardened pumpkins are early, unpretentious and high-yielding. Especially popular among the cultivated varieties are pumpkin varieties that produce medium-sized fruits, which makes it possible to consume pumpkin quickly and without loss. Since the pumpkin is cultivated because of the sweet dense pulp, the thickness of this layer, as well as the content of useful substances in it, is of great importance.
Adagio gourd variety
A pumpkin of this variety that ripens in 100-110 days from the appearance of sprouts, is middle-ripened. Several flattened fruits weighing from 2 to 3 kg have bright orange bark and the same pulp containing a record high amount of valuable carotene. The variety is cold-resistant, unpretentious and regularly supplies the gardener with high-quality commercially vitamin-rich portion fruits.
Pumpkin Gribovskaya Kustovaya 189
This variety is among the oldest and most famous among gardeners in Russia. The fruits of the Gribovsky bush gourd grow to 2.2–5 kg, have an obovate, oblong shape. The bark of the pumpkin is smooth or slightly ribbed, the color changes from green to light orange as it ripens, but sometimes ripe dark green stripes appear on mature fruits. According to the photo and description, the pumpkin variety of early ripening has a dense orange flesh of good taste.
Pumpkin F1 Dinocca
In the West, where pumpkins are extremely revered, and gardeners have more than a dozen different in shape and size varieties, such a pumpkin is called a delicacy. Indeed, the early, ripening for 95–105 days, hybrid of a pumpkin hardcore differs in dense, high sugar content and excellent palatability.
The fruits of this pumpkin variety are oblong, ridge-cylindrical, white with bright green and orange stripes. Due to the elegant appearance of the pumpkin, reaching a weight of 1–1.5 kg, the plant can be grown as a decorative pumpkin, and as in the photo, it can produce fruits useful for dietary and baby food.
Up to 12 kg of pumpkin can be obtained from one strong plant, which are stored for a long time without losing their properties. The fruits are consumed after cooking and raw.
Pumpkin Variety Medical
This pumpkin with gray bark covered with a darker grid and sweet crisp orange flesh got its name for good reason. In the fruits presented in the photo varieties of pumpkin, as described, a lot of vitamin E, B1 and B2, carotene, fiber, sugar. Ready for harvesting 95–110 days after the sprout appears, the pumpkin is not afraid of moderate frosts, it is well preserved in winter and can be used both as part of culinary dishes and independently in its raw form.
The fruit is round or flat, the surface is slightly segmented, smooth. By the time of harvest, the pumpkin is gaining weight from 3 to 5 kg, with up to 15 kg being harvested from one bush.
Pumpkin Candy
Small pumpkin fruits weighing up to 2.5 kg, as in the photo, are decorative, since they have a bright color and several pieces ripen on the lashes at once. The rind of this delicacy variety is orange-red, with vague dark green stripes and spots.
Pulp dense, crisp, containing up to 8% sugar, a lot of ascorbic acid and carotene. The grade of table appointment has average terms of aging. Fruits are recommended for cooking side dishes, various culinary dishes and juices, consumed fresh, and pumpkin successfully dried.
Pumpkin Spaghetti
One of the earliest ripened pumpkin varieties, as in the photo and in the description, in 65–80 days forms oblong oval fruits with firm smooth bark of yellow or light cream shade. Pumpkin weight does not exceed 1–1.2 kg, which is convenient for using fruits.
The main "attraction" of the variety is the unusual structure of fragrant low-lean pulp with pronounced fibers. Fibers increase during heat treatment, be it boiling or baking. As a result, similar to long thin spaghetti fibers are formed. Pumpkins of this variety are unpretentious, cold-resistant and tolerate dry periods well. Although the sugar content of fruits is low, there is a lot of carotene in the pulp, which is important for dietary nutrition.
Pumpkin Shrub Orange
This is a fruitful, versatile variety that yields for 95–105 days and is suitable for winter storage, well known to gardeners all over the country. Pumpkin Orange Kustovaya obtained Kuban breeders and employees of the Institute of Crop them. Vavilova. On compact bushes, round or slightly cylindrical fruits weighing up to 5 kg are formed. The bark of a pumpkin is thin, practically without a pattern, leathery to the touch. The yellow, juicy pulp of this pumpkin variety is suitable for any processing, drying and preparation of mashed potatoes and juice.
Russian-style pumpkin variety
A Russian-pumpkin variety will help the harvest in 85–95 days to gardeners. At the same time, small, portioned fruits of this type, gaining weight from 1.5 to 5 kg, are distinguished by high dietary qualities, are well transported and stored.
At the same time, on several lashes of a plant, 8 smooth decorative, as in the photo, pumpkin with orange non-rigid bark and bright fleshy inside can be seen. In its mature form, the flesh is crumbly, fragrant, very sweet. Due to the large thickness of the juicy layer inside the fruit there are few seeds, but sugar is up to 4.5% of the total mass.
If carriages, like Cinderella, don't make pumpkins now, then pumpkin regattas on huge orange fruits are held today not in a fairy tale, but in reality in the USA.Here, giant pumpkins weighing several hundred kilograms are particularly popular and respected.
The weight of the world record holder today has amounted to more than 820 kg, but if such a pumpkin can be grown into units, then a fruit weighing 50–100 kg can be obtained in any vegetable garden with good care and nutrition. It is the large orange fruits in the USA and other Western countries that are called pumpkin, and squash is called pumpkin of a different shape and size.
