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Pumpkin Jarrahdale Seeds
$3.90
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Jarrahdale is a classic Australian Pumpkin producing large, deeply ribbed fruits with distinctive slate-grey skin and dense, deep orange flesh. Long established as a popular market variety, it combines excellent eating quality, manageable preparation and very good storage life.
The flesh is sweet, rich and relatively dry, with a fine texture that makes Jarrahdale an outstanding all-purpose cooking pumpkin. It is excellent roasted, baked or mashed and works beautifully in soups, curries, scones, pies and other savoury or sweet dishes. Despite the substantial fruit size, the skin is comparatively easy to cut and peel.
Jarrahdale is a genuinely Australian variety, developed in Jarrahdale, Western Australia, south-east of Perth. It became an important commercial and home-garden pumpkin and remains one of the most recognisable Australian varieties, valued for its combination of flavour, attractive grey skin and dependable keeping qualities.
Plants are vigorous, sprawling vines and require plenty of room to grow. Fruits should be allowed to mature fully on the vine where possible, as mature pumpkins develop the best flavour and storage potential.
Pumpkins originated in the Americas and have been cultivated for thousands of years before spreading throughout the world. Australian growers subsequently selected varieties particularly suited to local conditions, transport, storage and cooking, with Jarrahdale becoming one of the country's enduring contributions to pumpkin diversity.
Approximately 15 seeds per packet
When to Plant (Australia)
Tropics: During the warm season, avoiding the wettest periods where disease pressure is high
Subtropics: Spring to summer
Mild climates: Spring to early summer after frost
Cold climates: Spring after all danger of frost; start indoors where the growing season is short
Planting / Sowing
Sow approximately 20–30 mm deep directly into warm, prepared soil after all danger of frost has passed, or raise seedlings for transplanting once conditions are reliably warm.
Grow in full sun in rich, fertile, well-drained soil. Allow approximately 1–2 m between plants and plenty of additional room for the large vines to spread.
Keep plants consistently watered during active growth, flowering and fruit development. Water deeply at soil level where possible rather than regularly wetting the foliage.
Harvest once fruits have developed their mature slate-grey colour, the rind has hardened and the stem begins to dry. Cut from the vine with a generous section of stem attached rather than lifting by the stalk.
Cure mature pumpkins in a warm, dry, well-ventilated position before moving them to a cool, dry storage area. Properly matured and cured Jarrahdale pumpkins have excellent keeping qualities.
Maturity: approximately 110–140 days.
Due to quarantine restrictions, TAS has an 800g limit per each seed variety and WA has a 10,000 seeds limit per variety.
Pumpkin Jarrahdale Seeds
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Cucurbita maxima
Jarrahdale is a classic Australian Pumpkin producing large, deeply ribbed fruits with distinctive slate-grey skin and dense, deep orange flesh. Long established as a popular market variety, it combines excellent eating quality, manageable preparation and very good storage life.
The flesh is sweet, rich and relatively dry, with a fine texture that makes Jarrahdale an outstanding all-purpose cooking pumpkin. It is excellent roasted, baked or mashed and works beautifully in soups, curries, scones, pies and other savoury or sweet dishes. Despite the substantial fruit size, the skin is comparatively easy to cut and peel.
Jarrahdale is a genuinely Australian variety, developed in Jarrahdale, Western Australia, south-east of Perth. It became an important commercial and home-garden pumpkin and remains one of the most recognisable Australian varieties, valued for its combination of flavour, attractive grey skin and dependable keeping qualities.
Plants are vigorous, sprawling vines and require plenty of room to grow. Fruits should be allowed to mature fully on the vine where possible, as mature pumpkins develop the best flavour and storage potential.
Pumpkins originated in the Americas and have been cultivated for thousands of years before spreading throughout the world. Australian growers subsequently selected varieties particularly suited to local conditions, transport, storage and cooking, with Jarrahdale becoming one of the country's enduring contributions to pumpkin diversity.
Approximately 15 seeds per packet
When to Plant (Australia)
Tropics: During the warm season, avoiding the wettest periods where disease pressure is high
Subtropics: Spring to summer
Mild climates: Spring to early summer after frost
Cold climates: Spring after all danger of frost; start indoors where the growing season is short
Planting / Sowing
Sow approximately 20–30 mm deep directly into warm, prepared soil after all danger of frost has passed, or raise seedlings for transplanting once conditions are reliably warm.
Grow in full sun in rich, fertile, well-drained soil. Allow approximately 1–2 m between plants and plenty of additional room for the large vines to spread.
Keep plants consistently watered during active growth, flowering and fruit development. Water deeply at soil level where possible rather than regularly wetting the foliage.
Harvest once fruits have developed their mature slate-grey colour, the rind has hardened and the stem begins to dry. Cut from the vine with a generous section of stem attached rather than lifting by the stalk.
Cure mature pumpkins in a warm, dry, well-ventilated position before moving them to a cool, dry storage area. Properly matured and cured Jarrahdale pumpkins have excellent keeping qualities.
Maturity: approximately 110–140 days.
Due to quarantine restrictions, TAS has an 800g limit per each seed variety and WA has a 10,000 seeds limit per variety.
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