It is astonishing how many different pumpkin variants exist with their different color range - from almost white to orange and red to deep green and also blue as i learned. However, the pumpkins in the picture are not Blue Jarrahdale pumpkins and are blue due to the lomochrome turquoise film.

As a child i knew only the classic garden pumpkins from movies and books. I can’t remember that i saw much pumpkins in my childhood. It all came later when halloween got more and more popular. The statistics seems to support my memory.

Suhr, F. (2020). Der Kürbis-Boom hält an. Statista. Statista GmbH.

It was weirdly fascinating to me when i saw a pumpkin field of kış kabağı for the first time in Türkiye - also the delicious dessert kabak tatlısı.1. I should try to make it myself sometime.

I am also wondering how stable the pumpkin harvest is in times of climate change.2

  1. You can really go into a rabbit hole if you look into the history of pumpkins and their trade routes. There are some interesting articles and videos about that topic:

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  2. https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/kuerbis-ernte-durchwachsen-deutschland-100.html ↩︎