Sell by the stem or individually.
Mini pumpkins on a stick.
Closely examine the fruit.
Pumpkin on a stick has been delighting gardeners for more than 125 years and goes by many names.
How to grow pumpkin on a stick from seed.
The fruit ripens to a deep reddish orange.
You can direct sow the seeds in your garden 2 to 4 weeks after your last frost when the soil temperature reaches 70 f.
If you had not seen the name at the top of the page could you guess what it is.
Then the 12 16 stems produce 6 8 pumpkin like fruits that ripen from green to red to burnt orange.
As the fruit grows it is a deep green color.
These bright colored pumpkin sticks are then used as.
Pumpkin on a stick also called pumpkin tree and pumpkin bush.
The plant looks like a typical eggplant thorns and all with a 16 20 spread until the stems and fruit start to form.
Either fresh or dried they add uniq.
Observing the fruit most people guess it is a strange variety of pumpkin.
That s why it s often called pumpkin on a stick or a pumpkin tree.
How to grow pumpkin on a stick or ornamental eggplant take a good look at this plant.
Some call it pumpkin tree or pumpkin bush because of the sturdy long lasting branches set with large purple thorns.
Those thorns are one of the giveaways that it s an eggplant by the way others call it mock tomato because it really does.
For ornamental pumpkin sticks allow the fruit to dry on the stem.
The plant grows three to five feet tall.
65 days from transplant.