Hutchinson Farm Pumpkin Guide

Pumpkins at Hutchinson Farm
Possibly the most amazing selection of pumpkins you'll ever see!

Photo: A Selection of Pumpkins, David MacTavish, Hutchinson Farm, Burlington, ON, September 20 2011

Each year hundreds of families visit our farm in October to experience life in rural Burlington, enjoy the fall colours, celebrate the harvest, and just have a lot of fun picking out pumpkins. At Hutchinson Farm, we embrace the diversity of life with an outstanding collection of standard and exotic pumpkins -each and every one is grown on our fields in north Burlington. We have: big pumpkins, small pumpkins, giant pumpkins, tiny pumpkins, orange pumpkins, red pumpkins, grey pumpkins, white pumpkins, brown pumpkins, blue pumpkins, cheese pumpkins, smooth pumpkins, bumpy pumpkins, wrinkly pumpkins, warty pumpkins, hulless seed pumpkins, striped pumpkins, new pumpkins, old pumpkins, classic pumpkins, exotic pumpkins, ordinary pumpkins, cooking pumpkins, carving pumpkins...

When you do come to our farm, we just have one suggestion: DON'T FORGET YOUR CAMERA!
Available Late September - October, 2017

Classic Jack-o'-Lanterns

	Captain Jack	35-50 lbs, round. A medium size pumpkin, with amazing handles
	Cornfield Pumpkin	12-15 lbs, oblate. An oblate shaped (shorter, wider) carver, with thin walls.
	Kratos	25-30 lbs, round. New for 2016, large with a good handle.
	Mrs Wrinkles	15-20 lbs, round, lots of ribs. A jack-o'-lantern with an old wrinkly face.
	Mustang PMR	18-24 lbs, round to slightly tall. A mid sized carver with sturdy stems.
	Phat Jack	40-50 lbs, tall. It's Big. Its stem is Bigger. It's the Biggest jack-o'-lantern. Pretty Hot And Tempting. Taller than Captain Jack.
	Phatso III	30-40 lbs, round. A large tall pumpkin, with long stems.
	Super Herc	25-35 lbs, tall.
	Warlock	A darker orange jack-o'-lantern with a few bumps and a hard shell.

"Pie" (small) Pumpkins

	Darling	A tall "pie" pumpkin
	Fall Splendor	Pie pumpkin size, better handle than "Small Sugar", inferior taste
	Small Sugar	The classic pie pumpkin for cooking or carving.
	Winter Luxury Pie	The very best tasting orange pie pumpkin, covered with fine white lace.

Exotic and Heirloom Pumpkins

	Algonquin	A small, but very tall pumpkin. Extremely rare.
	Amish Pie	Large pale orange "pumpkin" or is it a squash? Usually it is the size of a medium Jack-o'-lantern -perfect if you need to make a lot of pies!
	Galeuse d'Eysines	An unusual French heirloom pumpkin. A visual treasure, and culinary delight.
	Grey Ghost	This new "squash" is a Grey Crown pumpkin from Australia, and it's awfully similar to Whangaparaoa Crown, a New Zealand "Storage Pumpkin".
	Iran	What a beauty. Very Rare.
	Jarrahdale	A Queensland Blue variety - a classic pumpkin from "down under".
	Knuckle Head	A crazy pumpkin that is covered in warts. Also comes in a smaller version, "Goose Bumps".
	Kamo Kamo	Maybe more squash than pumpkin, but it's pumpkin orange and carvable. Not availabe 2016.
	Long Island Cheese	An American classic named for it's likeness to a cheese wheel.
	Marina di Chioggia	An Italian heirloom pumpkin, practically perfect in most every way.
	Moranga	A beautiful salmon-pink pumpkin from Brazil.
	Musquée de Provence	A french heirloom, often called "Fairytale" -noted for it's vibrant orange flesh.
	One Too Many	An exciting new pumpkin, white with orange veins, kind of like a bloodshot eye.
	Queensland Blue	The classic Australian Blue pumpkin.
	Red Warty Thing	A medium sized pumpkin. Its name says it all!
	Rouge Vif d'Etampes	Also called "Cinderella" this is the brightest red pumpkin available. Looks great as a Jack-o-lantern.
	Styrian Hulless	Austrian pumpkin with hulless seeds -perfect for pepitas
	Thai Kang Kob	A flat bumpy green pumpkin from Thailand
	Thai Rai Kaw Tok	Flat green with light brown splotches.
	Triamble	A unique three lobed beauty from Australia. Great flavour -excellent for long term storage.
	Yokohama Squash	Dark green and bumpy. Blocky shape with deep indentation at the stem, from Japan, 1860

White Pumpkins

	Cotton Candy	A white beauty with classic pumpkin shape and ribbing.
	Flat White Boer	The traditional white pumpkin from South Africa
	Moonshine	A bit bigger than Cotton Candy
	New Moon	Simply the best large white pumpkin available. New for 2011.
	Snowball	The whitest, roundest white pumpkin available!

Miniature Pumpkins

	Baby Boo	So cute! Our smallest white pumpkin.
	Crunchkin	Beautiful orange colour, with strong handle
	Gooligan	A bit bigger than Baby Boo
	Jack Be Little	The smallest (and cutest) orange mini-pumpkin.
	Lil' Orange Mon	Extra long stems on a beautiful orange base.
	Lil' Pump-Ke-Mon	A cream-orange bi-colour.

Exotic Small Pumpkins

	Baby Bumps	Knucklehead's baby sister
	Warty Goblin	New for 2015 The
	Harvest Princess	New for 2015 A
	Sanchez	New for 2015 Simp
	Sunlight	New for 2015 The whitest, roundest white pumpkin available!

Giant Pumpkins

	Atlantic Giants	Too heavy to lift!
	New Moon	Simply the best large white pumpkin available. New for 2011.
	Prizewinner	Our largest pumpkin. Beautiful bright red-orange colour.

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