PABest Four year old Harris Stevenson from Fife loads up a wheelbarrow at Craigies Farm in Queensferry which will be opening up their pumpkin fields for the tenth consecutive year to visitors who can pick their own pumpkins this October. Visitors can choo
Nice poem and nice pumpkin, but the advice in the last line is not good advice.
Pumpkins, and other members of the squash family (marrows, courgettes, cucumbers, squashes etc.) can, if cross-fertilised with wild members of the family or with ornamental gourds, produce seeds which will grow into poisonous plants, giving rise to “toxic squash syndrome” if eaten.
Get seeds from a reliable source, rather than saving your own.
Iona Seymour
Llandrindod Wells
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