Some pumpkins from the allotment

Not all of them, Oct 2020

The son and I picked most of the pumpkins and squashes last week and brought them home from the allotment over two days (we were walking and couldn't carry them all in one go).  The above photo is the first day's haul;  after the second trip the bench was covered completely, despite the fact that we'd carved one and eaten three small ones.

RIP, Oct 2020

We were given a pumpkin two years ago by a fellow allotmenter and have growing and saving seeds from that one specimen since.  I don't know the variety, other than it's a culinary pumpkin with very thick flesh--not thin-walled like the carving varieties.  For Halloween we carved the orange-est one anyway, then baked it the next day for our Sunday lunch, plus pumpkin pie.  A very tasty pumpkin.

They all had several days to dry out and are now inside on display, to be gradually eaten.  I'm a little disappointed in the squashes:  all pretty small, and most not fully ripened unlike the pumpkins.  We'll eat the unripe ones first and I'll dehydrate some for later this winter, to go in stews and casseroles.  I'm going to try and dry a batch of "zoodles", long thin strips to be used like pasta.