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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Squash bug control
  • Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:00:39 -0600 (CST)

>Interesting. My pumpkins (which have not much been bothered by squash
>bugs) have always been pie pumpkins; I've grown New England Pie and
>several others. -- Fedco says New England Pie is pepo, and so are
>several others that I've grown. I may well not have grown any maxima
>pumpkins, though I'm not sure.

Its interesting too how the term pie pumpkin gets used. Some people,
especially in New England, are referring to the New England Sugar Pie variety
when they say "pie pumpkin" but it's also become a term for all small
pumpkins among many growers and consumers. It's unfortunate because the Sugar
Pie variety is selected for culinary quality but many small verieties are
selected for other reasons and are inferior for culinary use. Then, to make
matters worse, most of the canning companies use types like Buckskin and
Dickinson Field Pumpkin for their pie pack. Then there is one that uses
Golden Delicious (C. maxima) squash for their pie pack. So two people talking
"pie pumpkins" can be talking about vastly different products.

Bill
William H Shoemaker, UI-Crop Sciences
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
535 Randall Road St Charles, IL 60174
630-584-7254; FAX-584-4610




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