Cucurbita pepo
25 seeds
Maturity: 110 days
Baby Pam is considered a classic pie pumpkin and is known for its uniform size and ability to ripen the majority of fruit on the vine, even in poor conditions. Fruit is round and orange, with stringless smooth bright orange flesh that sweet and tasty, excellent for culinary use. Other folks claim that the fruits average 3–4 lbs but in our trial, our smallest fruit was 4.75, nearly half the weight of the majority of fruit that was very consistent, averaging 7.9 lbs, our largest reaching 8.26 lbs.
Open-pollinated pumpkin needs to be hand pollinated if grown without insects present such as inside a hoop house or greenhouse.
FROM THE FARMERS
WE GREW PUMPKINS! We did a lot of research and picked Baby Pam as our first trial because it is a dwarf variety known for producing in challenging conditions. We threw the seeds in the hoop house without any expectations. These sprawling plants took over and resulted in great big beautiful pumpkins. Extremely sweet and tasty that made mind blowing pumpkin pie. The cured pumpkins happily kept on a shelf in our kitchen through January.
Baby Pam plants are massive and sprawling and did not have high yields per plant in our northern conditions. We recommend them if you have a good amount of space for them to crawl into and the ability to protect them. Caterpillar tunnels would be an excellent solution.