Small Sugar Pumpkin
Cucurbita pepo
Price: $3.16
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Small Sugar
Cucurbita pepo
110 days — 'Small Sugar', also known as 'New England Pie', produces fruit that average six to eight inches in diameter and weigh about six pounds. The flesh is thick and sweet and has been one of our family's canning favorites for years. Outstanding for processing and pumpkin pies.
Once one of the most common pie-type pumpkins to see in New England farmer's fields, they were prized for their fine, sweet flesh and traditionally used for making Thanksgiving pumpkin pies. Over the past couple of centuries, some of its many synonyms have included, 'Boston Golden Sugar', 'Boston Pie', 'Early Small Sugar', 'Early Sugar', Golden Sugar', 'Prolific Sugar', Rhode Island Sugar', and 'Yum Yum'.[1]
Described by Fearing Burr in 1863 as,
". . . flesh of good thickness, light yellow, fine-grained, sweet and well flavored . . . The variety is the smallest of the sorts used for field cultivation. It is, however, a most abundant bearer, rarely fails in maturing its crops perfectly, is of first-rate quality, and may be justly styled an acquisition. For pies, it is not surpassed by any of the family; and it is superior for table use to many of the garden squashes."[1]
Each packet contains four grams, which is approximately 20 seeds.
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