Summary: This handsome, easy to grow All-America Award Winning Hybrid offers significant advantages to those who enjoy growing pumpkins. Medium sized, vigorous growing plants produce approximately 3 uniform 10 lb fruits. The brilliant Halloween orange color develops in the immature stage, enabling early harvest in short season areas or when desired. Autumn Gold is a perfect triple purpose pumpkin - for carving, cooking and delicious seed snacks.
When and where to plant: Select sunny location and sow seed when the soil has warmed. Plants prefer fertile soil. For best results, loosen soil with spade or fork, working in vegetable food and organic matter and smooth with rake. Firm soil over seed and keep moist.
Care: Keep soil moist, weed free and feed monthly.
Harvesting: Cut from vine, leaving 3 in of stem when Halloween orange.
Health Note: Flesh is rich in vitamin A and supplies some minerals.
Planting
Depth |
Seeds Per Group (Hills) |
Seed
Spacing |
Spacing
of Groups (Hills) |
Days To
Germination |
Thin to Plants Per Group (Hill) |
Days To
Maturity |
| ¾-1 in / 2-3 cm |
5-8 |
3 in / 8 cm |
6-8 ft / 1.8-2.4 m |
10 |
2-3 |
90 |