This giant, edible pumpkin is fun to grow and children love it! Plants have large, prolific rambling vines that, at maturity, produce huge (up to 2’ diameter), round, bright orange pumpkins weighing up to 90lbs. Mike is always experimenting in the kitchen for farm lunches so he sliced and browned young squashes in the oven with olive oil and salt, and our interns couldn’t stop raving about it - it tastes, looks and has a texture reminiscent of mozzarella cheese. Janice Leach of Why Not Pie says that mature squash make excellent pumpkin pie. This pumpkin is easy to grow just be sure to give it enough space! When growing we like to let one or two pumpkins stay on the vine to get big and we pick the rest of the squash immature (when 3 – 12” diameter) to enjoy roasted. This squash had a case of mistaken identity. We have changed its name from “Wisconsin Cheese” to “W.C. Giant Pumpkin” because of a mix-up with the seeds that were originally given to us and mislabeled “Wisconsin Cheese.” This squash is not in fact the “Wisconsin Cheese” variety but is some sort of giant pumpkin possibly “Week’s North Carolina Giant” but there is no way to know for sure. We love it anyways and know that you will love it too! (Formerly known as Wisconsin Cheese). 60 days to maturity for summer squash, 100 days to pumpkin.
