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  • Valhalla Hall Small Sugar pumpkin seed packet, kraft paper with an illustration of a round orange pie pumpkin with vine, leaves and blossom
  • Small Sugar pumpkins
  • The Valhalla Hall Small Sugar Pumpkin Samhain Season collector seed packet, a black envelope with an ornate illustrated label of orange pumpkins ripening in a moonlit field under a harvest moon, naming Cucurbita pepo, photographed in a pumpkin patch beside a lit lantern with autumn leaves and vines
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Pumpkin Seeds - Small Sugar

$5.95
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The pumpkin you carve in October and eat in November.

Cucurbita pepo 'Small Sugar' is the heirloom pie pumpkin: 6 to 8 lb fruits with dense, dry, stringless flesh and a rind that keeps for months. This is the variety behind a real pumpkin pie, not the watery jack-o'-lantern sort.

Two designs, one packet

Both are our standard seed packet, the same size, holding the same seed. The only difference is what is printed on the front.

  • Classic kraft — the year-round packet: kraft paper with the illustrated variety label.
  • Samhain Season — the seasonal collector design: black stock printed with a moonlit pumpkin field under a harvest moon. A seed packet as a small piece of autumn, the kind that gets kept rather than thrown away.

Collector designs change with the season and are printed in limited runs, so the artwork, paper colour and finish vary from one run to the next and may differ from the packet photographed.

What it is good for

  • A gift for someone who bakes. This is the variety behind a real pumpkin pie.
  • Party favours and table settings at an autumn dinner or a Halloween supper.
  • The gardener who has everything. Costs less than a card, lasts a whole season.

How to grow

  • Sow: 1 inch deep, once frost has passed and the soil is warm.
  • Space: 3 to 5 feet apart; rows 5 to 8 feet.
  • Sun: Full sun.
  • Germination: 5 to 10 days at 70 to 90°F.
  • Harvest: When the rind hardens and the stem begins to dry and cork.
  • Store: Cool, dark and dry. A good keeper.

In Florida

Frost is not the limiting factor here — heat is. UF/IFAS recommends sowing pumpkins in early July for North Florida, mid-July for Central Florida and early August for South Florida, which lines the harvest up with the decorating season rather than the worst of the summer.

Pumpkins are heavy feeders. Work compost into the bed before sowing and give the vines room to run. Keep the soil evenly moist while they are flowering and setting fruit, and water at soil level rather than over the leaves. Bees set the fruit, so avoid spraying while the flowers are open.

Heirloom and open-pollinated. Save seed from a well-isolated plant and it comes back true.

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