Please find for sale 5 seeds for White/Ghost Pumpkins variety Casper. These are as fresh as they are going to get - from my organically grown Sept 2022 harvest. See the pic of the daddy pumpkin sitting on my bin! This variety is good to each with bright orange flesh but of course they are also great for carving & are something different to the normal Halloween orange varieties. I got the idea for these from a relative living in New Hampshire where pumpkin growing & carving is an obsession! ALL ORDERS RECEIVED BEFORE 8PM MON-FRI WILL BE DISPATCHED SAME DAY SAVE PACKAGING MATERIALS - SEE OTHER INTERESTING & UNUSUAL SEEDS & PLANTS in MY SHOP INSTRUCTIONS - TO SAVE PAPER I NO LONGER SEND OUT WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS TO CUSTOMERS. INSTRUCTIONS ARE BELOW SO PLEASE BOOKMARK THIS PAGE. FEEL FREE TO MESSAGE ME WITH ANY GROWING QUESTIONS. Growing Instructions Best sown in pots in March/April - 2 seeds inch deep per pot. Pinch out weakest looking seedling in each pot Keep seedlings warm (18-22oC) compost evenly moist - water little & often. Plant outside after frost risk passed - dont be in a hurry - better to wait as growth will catch up anyway. Give plenty of space Feed with balanced liquid fertiliser every 2 weeks once flowering. Depending on the size of pumpkins you want from each plant, pinch out excess flowers. Cut fruits to harvest once the stems around the pumpkin have gone brown & rigid Get carving and/or eating! Olly’s General Guide to Seed Sowing! I love sowing seeds & it runs in the family - dad, grandad & finally my great-grandad for whom the hobby helped him get over his experiences in the Great War. I still get a big kick when I see the first seedling poking through from a new plant that I have never sown before or been successful at. However, even the most experienced gardeners draw blanks from time to time. Whilst I sow all the seeds that I sell so I know that they are viable, some are trickier than others & problems can arise so here are some tips to make blanks few & far between: 1) Don’t Rush! Tempting though it is when that packet arrives in the post to simply bung the seeds in some compost! 2) Google & Youtube are your friends! Take some time so see the methods other people use to germinate the seed. 3) Think Nature! What conditions do seeds face? For example a seed from a tropical plant will fall to the warm, wet & dark jungle floor. A seed from the mountains of Europe will fall to the floor in Autumn, then have to endure months of freezing temperatures before germinating in the spring. So as growers, what we are trying to do is to simulate the conditions that the seeds will naturally experience & there are plenty of tricks that can be done to short cut the processes somewhat. 4) Good compost pays dividends . The best investment you can make is to purchase three bags - one of potting compost, one of vermiculite & one of horticultural sand. With these three bags I can make up whatever soil type a particular seed likes (although
