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Tips for success.

• Harvest pumpkins after the first frost

• If you live in a mile climate you may pick once the pumpkins have coloured up and sound hollow when you knock the shell with your knuckles.

• If the skin of the pumpkin is hard and doesn’t leave a dent when ‘knocked’ it is ripe.

• Once the leaves have died away is another way to know your pumpkins are ripe.

• Pick pumpkins from the vine by leaving the stem on the Pumpkin. This is important because if you cut it off you leave a wound which may cause the pumpkin to rot rather than store well.

• Place in a dry, dark place away from rain and weather. Garages, wood sheds and tool sheds are perfect – just keep them up off the ground. 

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