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Do you eat the seeds and todays free haul

16 years ago

Do you eat the seeds from the pumpkins you swipe from curbs? My dh bought me home 5 he found in a ditch and I had a few and my gram gave me like 6 so I have a heaping amount of seeds! I cleaned them and I am going to roast and eat them. There was only one pumpkin that was moldy inside so I tossed those seeds. I also came home with 4 bags of shredded leaves and like 10 unshredded. I feel like I am missing out on all those bags I passed by!

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maryann_____chgo
16 years ago
The bags of already shredded leaves are usually plump and rounder than the unshredded ones. It's too cold here to run the lawn mower anymore so I'm just picking up the "chubby" bags. If the curbside bags are lumpy, wet, skimpy looking or have branches sticking out, I don't even slow down.
nakio
16 years ago
I don't eat the seeds, but I do dry them and put them out on the birdfeeder in winter. In fact I do that with all surplus saved seeds.
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ohioveggies
Original Author
16 years ago
I never thought of giving them to the birds! Good idea.
catherine_nm
16 years ago
My picky eater DD decided this Halloween that she LOVES roasted pumpkin seeds, so I have been roasting all I can find. The last batch went slower, though, so I think we are done for the season.

My pumpkins run through the chicken yard before the remains are raked into the compost pile. So I am sort of giving the rest of the seeds to the bird, too.

Catherine
dorisl
16 years ago
most of the ones I picked up were too gushy to even consider eating the seeds. Its kinda cute to see a squirrel carrying around a cube of punkin and nibbling on it.

Ask me tomorrow tho and Ill be bad and the rotten tree rats for digging in my pile.

:)

Also realizing that leaves are HEAVY when wet.
led_zep_rules
16 years ago
We eat the seeds, but this year we didn't get any pumpkins or hay bales in my leaf grabbing trips. Last year got 2 lovely bales of straw and at least a dozen pumpkins. Hubby loves pumpkin seeds, we roast them in the oven.

Marcia
raee_gw zone 5b-6a Ohio
16 years ago
Oh, yes, I eat the seeds! I rarely get any pumpkins from the neighbors although I try to keep my eyes open for them. After halloween, though, I get good solid pumpkins from the store or roadside stands. Doesn't anyone else eat the pumpkin itself? It is a yummy vegetable (even the so-called "field" pumpkins)& easy to cook, and it freezes well. The peels go into the compost pile.

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