...other use? Do you want to can pumpkin cubes or quick-freeze pumpkin chips? Your are hardiness zone 7b. No frost in spring and stable water supply, only August a little below 3 inches average rainfall at Mount Vernon Texas. Do you grow on very deep sandy soil? There are difficult soils around your middle of Interstate 30 with sand only 50" deep...

Or did you ever hear a term like "Crockett sandy loam" for your soil? This would fit better for pumpkin.

In the Netherlands I had some awesome mashed Pumpkin at a restaurant I would really like to duplicate. Canning something good for the mid-Winter period for soups and stews would be nice too.

I'm not sure how deep the sand is where I live but, watermelons and tomatoes do really well. I have well water so, supplementing the garden isn't a concern.

Trying to figure out what the better/best pumpkin variety would be is the hard part. The only thing I see around here are Halloween pumpkins. With pumpkins, squash, and few other things I would be set for the colder months and could avoid the grocery store imports.

I would love to try one of those pumpkins in my garden and on my dinner table.

And would you dry all seed? For best seed you open fruits not before December, because after harvest they have to lay dry under the roof but with UV-B rays... on the balcony I store them, because a thin green layer below the white skin produces with sun light for better seed quality. When a little frost is expected, you can lay a old blanket onto the fruits over the night. In late November I put most pumpkins into the cellar, but the rest on the balcony is still well after a few night around freezing poit, although they were not covered. To get seed, please send UPS with pick-up request. I cant afford to send seed around the globe further on, I had very bad experiences from Uganda to North America, when I had sent on my costs.

I have had good luck with general first class mail. A few months ago I actually bought some watermelon seeds inside the conflict zone in Ukraine. At the time I thought the city was outside the rebel zone only to later discover that it was actually behind the front lines of the conflict. International UPS is prohibitively expensive in my past experience so, that isn't an option for me at this time.

Perhaps this spring, I can trade some of my Russian variety watermelon seeds with you or someone else in a seed swap.

ok, do you have Russian Golden Watermelon?

... or Sweet Siberian?