The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing/Cooking/Carving

by Gail Damerow

Overview

The big orange pumpkin is no longer just for Halloween! Gail Damerow shows you how to cultivate more than 95 varieties of pumpkin, and provides recipes for pumpkin pies, muffins, and even pumpkin beer. You’ll also learn how to use pumpkins in a variety of craft projects, from carving unique jack-o’-lanterns to creating pumpkin-scented creams and soaps. With tips on growing giant pumpkins, preserving your harvest through the winter, and much more, The Perfect Pumpkin will delight pumpkin lovers of all sensibilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882669939
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	01/08/1997
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What’s Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.
 

Table of Contents

Introducing the Versatile Pumpkin

1. The Great American Pumpkin

2. Fruit of Many Faces

3. The Pumpkin Patch

4. The Big One

5. Pumpkin Pests

6. Pumpkin Arts and Crafts

7. Pumpkin Eater

Appendix

Recommended Reading

Organizations

Carving Supplies

Carving Contests

Pumpkin Seed Sources

Converting Recipe Measurements to Metric

IndeX

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"...I believe this could be the best book ever published on pumpkins."
—Howard Dill, breeder of 'Dill's Atlantic Giant' pumpkins, Windsor, Nova Scotia