Mini Pumpkins On A Stick

The plant looks like a typical eggplant thorns and all with a 16 20 spread until the stems and fruit start to form.

Mini pumpkins on a stick.

If you had not seen the name at the top of the page could you guess what it is. It produces ribbed fruit a little smaller than a miniature jack b. Pumpkin on a stick is easy to grow from seed as long as you keep in mind that this is a tropical plant and needs hot weather to germinate and grow. The plant grows three to five feet tall.

How to grow pumpkin on a stick or ornamental eggplant take a good look at this plant. These bright colored pumpkin sticks are then used as. As the fruit grows it is a deep green color. How to grow pumpkin on a stick from seed.

The fruit ripens to a deep reddish orange. Also common to asia and south america in north america this nightshade eggplant is more often used as an ornamental where people trim the branches sticks strip the leaves and allow the fruit to dry on the stem. Those thorns are one of the giveaways that it s an eggplant by the way others call it mock tomato because it really does. Observing the fruit most people guess it is a strange variety of pumpkin.

Pumpkin on a stick has been delighting gardeners for more than 125 years and goes by many names. Either fresh or dried they add uniq. Sell by the stem or individually. Pumpkin on a stick also called pumpkin tree and pumpkin bush.

65 days from transplant. You can direct sow the seeds in your garden 2 to 4 weeks after your last frost when the soil temperature reaches 70 f. That s why it s often called pumpkin on a stick or a pumpkin tree. For ornamental pumpkin sticks allow the fruit to dry on the stem.