WINTER SQUASH 
4-8 LBS EACH & 8-10” ACROSS

 ORGANICALLY GROWN

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This pumpkin is known by many names including "SUGAR PIE PUMPKIN" or "SWEET SUGAR PIE PUMPKIN. "Sugar Pies are the perfect baking pumpkin for pies. The skin is thin and the flesh is sweet and fine grained (not like a jack-o-lantern). The flesh is also drier which makes for a very stable pie consistency. The reason it is called winter squash is that it develops a thick skin that allows it to keep for months into the winter (in a cool place). You can continue to enjoy this extremely sweet nutritious pumpkin from your garden for months after the last harvest. This vine gives you numerous 4-8 pound delicious orange fleshed pumpkins. It has a hard deep orange skin. All winter squash provide complex carbohydrates, fiber, iron, potassium & niacin. The orange flesh is high in beta carotene (vitamin A) & vitamin C. The darker the orange color, the more beta carotene it has. A 4 ounce serving has about 29 - 43 calories.

Maturity: About 90 Days

EASY PLANTING DIRECTIONS: Plant seeds 1" inch deep in the garden in the spring when there is no danger of frost & it is warm in your planting zone. Plant 6-8 seeds in a small hill or mound of soil & space them 3-4' feet apart. If you started them outdoors, thin the hill to the 3 healthiest plants.

*You can start seeds indoors in individual peat pots indoors 2 to 3 weeks before the last frost. Just cover the seeds with 1/2 - 3/4"  inch soil. Transplant them outdoors when there is no chance of frost.
GERMINATION: You should begin to see the seeds sprouting in anywhere from 1-2 weeks depending on the weather, soil temperature and amount of sun that they get. Keep the soil moist, but not soggy, since all seeds will rot if they get too much water.

Pumpkin love rich, well drained soil & lots of SUN!!

Water well, but DON'T OVERWATER or use much high nitrogen fertilizer

HARVEST: Before frost when the skin is dark orange and hard. ** CUT THE STEM** (DON'T SNAP IT OFF) LEAVING AS MUCH STEM AS POSSIBLE ATTACHED so it will store longer in winter

KEEP the harvested pumpkin for about a week in a warm, dry spot in the sun to cure & harden the skin it so it will store well into the winter