Pumpkin Varieties UK
Pumpkins come in all different shapes, sizes and colours they are not just the ones that you will see in the supermarket for Halloween. In this article, we will provide you with all the different pumpkin varieties UK. Which variety of pumpkin will you try growing next in the UK?
Allotment and Kitchen Garden Book
Are you starting an allotment or planning on growing your own fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in a kitchen garden? If so we highly recommend the book Allotment Month By Month. This does exactly what it does on the cover to help you with what you should be doing in the allotment and kitchen garden each month. Below you can see the link for Amazon where you can purchase the book directly. This book is extremely popular with all allotment holders as you will read in the reviews:-
You can check out all the allotment and kitchen garden books we recommend here.
Blue Hokkaido Pumpkin
This pumpkin variety comes in a small size not like your usual pumpkin. It is a beautiful blue/grey colour on the skin and a golden flesh on the inside. This pumpkin is often used for dessert dishes and also for your savory dishes.
When growing this variety of pumpkin it requires a lot of space like other pumpkins as it can grow between 3-10 pumpkins per plant. So it produces some great crops.
The Blue Hokkaido Pumpkin is also known as Blue Kuri squash. This variety is defiantly worth a try at growing in the UK. You can get seeds from the link below.
Long Island Cheese Pumpkin
This variety of pumpkin is related to the butternut squash. This variety of pumpkin obviously comes from the area Long Island and is a popular growing pumpkin here.
The pumpkin variety is a heirloom variety. It is often thought to look like a wheel of cheese. Obviously it does not taste like cheese. When deciding what to cook with it use it like you would butternut squash.
The Long Island Pumpkin is a popular variety to grow at the allotment and at home with great crops. You can purchase seeds for the Long Island Pumpkin in the link below. Will you try growing this variety.
Rouge VIF D’ETAMPES Pumpkin
The Rouge VIF D’ETAMPES Pumpkin is also a heirloom variety pumpkin. It is also known as the Cinderella Pumpkin from the Disney film. They actually used this variety of pumpkin to draw the pictures.
This variety of pumpkin started it’s time off in America but is extremely popular in France. It is often used in Autumnal displays and Harvest displays.
To look at the Rouge VIF D’ETAMPES Pumpkin it is slightly flat looking.
If you would like to grow this Disney fairytale pumpkin you can purchase seeds from the link below.
Sugar Pumpkin
Sugar pumpkins sometimes get confused with the pumpkins you buy for Halloween but they are a lot smaller and sweeter.
These pumpkins are ideal for pureeing, roasting and steaming with. They taste amazing and the inside of the texture will go creamy when you are cooking with them.
These are a lot smaller than the large ones which you tend to buy round October, as these are smaller they are much better for cooking with. If your recipe is to use a pumpkin this would be the one you are best choosing. You can purchase Sugar Pumpkin seeds below for planting.
White Pumpkin
White pumpkins used to be uncommon to see but they are popping up more and more around the world. Especially as they are great to look at.
As well as them being called the white pumpkin they can be called :- albino pumpkin, ghost pumpkin, Snowball, Casper, Lumina, Baby Boo, and Cotton Candy Pumpkin.
These pumpkins are grown like other pumpkins and will take around 90 days to grow from planting the seed through to harvesting them.
These are quite popular for Halloween now as they are a lot easier to carve than the standard organe pumpkin.
If you would like to grow these ghostly pumpkins you can click the link below to purchase them.
We hope you have found the Pumpkin Varieties UK useful. Do you want to know what is the best way to store Pumpkins? Here you can find out the best way.
