Pumpkins in supermarkets

[Findahouse21]

Does anyone know a rough date when the supermarkets start stocking pumpkins please?

I would have thought it was towards the end of September / beginning of October?

I would say Mid September onwards

Are you looking for it for a recipe? They sometimes have tinned pumpkin if you want it before they come into season.

theyre ready early this year I reckon. Mine are a deep orange already in the veg plot. So depends I guess if they have space to store them until nearer halloween

To eat or carve? I think the weather will have had an impact this year.
Our eating ones on the allotment are still small.

Ripening in the fields around our way so as couple of weeks they will start harvesting.

As it stands my allotment has 12 and about 50 to come!!..
Anyone for soup?

Thank you, I'm hoping to buy a few to decorate dd's birthday party on 17th Oct so hopefully I should be okay and not too early from what you have said :)

Hmmm - I’ve never actually tried pumpkin soup before!

what does it taste like? Yes, beside the taste of pumpkins… 😆

I’ve given up my allotment now but they can be ridiculously prolific can’t they! We were swimming in them 😆

Raw pumpkin smells awful but add onions and chillis and blend and oh my!!..

You’ll be fine. Dd was buying them in early October last year and they were soft by halloween

Thanks everyone

@curiousitygotthebetterofme

I invariably make the Halloween pumpkin into soup next day - waste not want not. But it’s an Asian style soup - onion, garlic, chilli, ginger, chicken stock, and coconut milk. It’s delish. Ordinary pumpkin soup can be a bit tasteless IMO - it needs plenty of flavour added.

Yeah, you should be fine there, I would say.

That sounds lovely!!