A beautiful heirloom, the tasty fruit have bluish-green skin, they are deeply ribbed and contain delicious rich golden-orange flesh.  They weigh up to 5kg each and are ready to harvest after about 14 weeks.  They store well, getting sweeter all the time.  This plant does vine but it is easily managed.

Price for 3 seeds. 

You will enjoy growing Spitfire F1, a lovely small pumpkin, a very manageable 2kg (typical weight), with a rich deep orange skin and tasty firm flesh ideal for all culinary adventures from roasting to baking and from puree to creating your own pumpkin houmous.  Price for 3 seeds

SOW: in individual pots inside during April or May.  You can keep them on a windowsill until sprouted then pop into a coldframe or unheated greenhouse.

GROW: keep moist and warm, ready to plant out when at 2/3 leaf stage.  Harden off well before planting out.  Allow about 50cm to their nearest non-pumpkin neighbour, 100cm to the nearest pumpkin, and train vines round in a neat circle.  Spitfire can produce lots of fruits, leave them all on for smaller fruits or remove some and concentrate growth into a few.

EAT:  these will fulfil every pumpkin culinary adventure you can imagine  

Glorious pumpkins and you will always know which one is which… from the tiny Baby Boo to Mammoth Gold with some Charisma to make your 2024 pumpkin patch the best ever.  This collection contains one packet each of...

Baby Boo ~ just the right size to sit in the palm of your hand, a charming & tasty one pot pumpkin.  Perfect for a pumpkin patch where it will scramble around and produce about 10 miniature fruits per plant (3 seeds)

Charisma F1 ~ these bold shiny-orange fruits are real ribbed “lookers” with a good flavour, they average around 4kg.  They are a semi-bush type and are more likely to stay in one place! (3 seeds)

Mammoth Gold ~ features in this month’s spotlight and could be in your pumpkin patch!  With perfect conditions you could be the proud grower of a 45kg pumpkin… however, in the UK, you are more likely to be very happy with some much more manageable 9-12kg fruits.  All will have a smooth orange skin, only slightly ribbed, with tasty pale orange flesh.  (3 seeds).