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Pumpkin looks like a marrow

RubyRossRubyRoss Posts: 124
in Fruit & veg
The pumpkin I set (Sankt Martin) is growing nicely, but the fruit is a long way from the round, orange pumpkins on the cover of the seed packet. Am I growing something else or will it magically become round and orange in time? (All the fruit are like this)

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That looks like a marrow ........ although the leaves don't  :/

    Looks as if there may have been some cross-pollination going on at the Seed Producer's place ... which seed company are they from?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • [Glen][Glen] Posts: 76
    Not all is lost. Please post again you decide to carve faces in your marrows.
  • [Glen][Glen] Posts: 76
    Dovefromabove said:
    That looks like a marrow ........ although the leaves don't  :/

    Looks as if there may have been some cross-pollination going on at the Seed Producer's place ... which seed company are they from?
    Any idea what the flesh of fruit would be like?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The only way to tell will be to try it ... my guess is it'll be more like a marrow.  Sometimes cucurbit crosses can be unpleasantly bitter ... if so don't eat them as they can cause an upset tum. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hampshire HogHampshire Hog Posts: 330
    I think you have some rouge seed there looks like Marrow to me could just be a Naples Long they are green but tend to like a warmer climate.
    'Sankt Martin' should be orange and on average 30 cm long and weight 4-8KG
    "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
  • RubyRossRubyRoss Posts: 124
    I gave it lots of love and attention thinking of all the pumpkin soup I would make.

    Ah well, I'll brush up on my marrow cutting skills and buy better seeds next year
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Make some good old Suffolk Marrow Rum 

     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/3292157/Readersrecipes-marrow.html

     B) 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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