Hello everyone and welcome to this spooky episode of the epic gardening

podcast my name is Kevin and I am the spooky gardener today and today we're talking

about ghost pumpkins or white ghost pumpkins in preparation for Halloween

and I'm just going to run through just a bit of history about white pumpkins and talk about a few different varieties and just have some fun and

share some information that I think maybe most people didn't know about pumpkins and

specifically white pumpkins so let's go ahead and get into it.

First of all what is the history of the white pumpkin? Where did these things come from?

Well, pumpkin is basically just a winter squash, and it's come in many colors for as long as there have been pumpkins. Some pumpkin seeds can date back

anywhere from 7,000 to 5,500 BC. Those were discovered in Mexico, which means

that North America is the pumpkin's native land.

So here's something interesting.

Not until around 2005, though,

have white pumpkins been developed

for their own charm and their own oddity.

Whereas before they'd be sort of be just be like a random shade showing up between

orange and green squash at the farmers market, but once we discovered not only how to breed plants in

specific ways, but also that people would probably want white pumpkins, did all these

different varieties start to pop up.

So let's run through a few of them and there's a lot on my site at epic gardening.

com board slash white dash pumpkins, but that's not too relevant right now let's go ahead and just

run through some of them of my favorite ones the first is going to be baby

boo so this is not edible, it is extremely small, and if you grow these they're very prolific.

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