Mini Pumpkins On A Stick

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Mini pumpkins on a stick.

Some call it pumpkin tree or pumpkin bush because of the sturdy long lasting branches set with large purple thorns. The plant grows three to five feet tall. How to grow pumpkin on a stick or ornamental eggplant take a good look at this plant. These bright colored pumpkin sticks are then used as.

Pumpkin on a stick also called pumpkin tree and pumpkin bush. It produces ribbed fruit a little smaller than a miniature jack b. If you had not seen the name at the top of the page could you guess what it is. As the fruit grows it is a deep green color.

Those thorns are one of the giveaways that it s an eggplant by the way others call it mock tomato because it really does. Then the 12 16 stems produce 6 8 pumpkin like fruits that ripen from green to red to burnt orange. Observing the fruit most people guess it is a strange variety of pumpkin. The fruit ripens to a deep reddish orange.

How to grow pumpkin on a stick from seed. Pumpkin on a stick has been delighting gardeners for more than 125 years and goes by many names. You can direct sow the seeds in your garden 2 to 4 weeks after your last frost when the soil temperature reaches 70 f. Also common to asia and south america in north america this nightshade eggplant is more often used as an ornamental where people trim the branches sticks strip the leaves and allow the fruit to dry on the stem.

Closely examine the fruit. That s why it s often called pumpkin on a stick or a pumpkin tree. 65 days from transplant. Either fresh or dried they add uniq.