Successful Harvest

The 2019 sowing of Kakai seed pumpkins produced only pedestrian pumpkin seeds - cursed by a tough outer hull.  As it turns-out I was not alone.  That seed stock was compromised by cross pollination resulting in reverberations of disappointment within the pumpkin seed gardening community at the loss of an entire year’s crop.

This spring, marauding birds ate my seeds before they even had an opportunity to germinate.

A second sowing (caged with chicken wire) resulted in the germination of two seeds.

Those two vines grew to a mutant thing eventually occupying 20% of the garden.

Harvest was today.

Behold the Kakai pumpkin gourd - all fourteen of them.

With shaking hand I opened the smallest with a handy machete.

Green, hulless seeds. Pure kernel!

S’all good, man.