Fun Pumpkin Facts from your Orlando Area Pumpkin Patch!

• Pumpkin flowers are edible.
• Pumpkins are fruit.
• Pumpkin seeds can be roasted as a snack (yummy!).
• Pumpkins contain potassium and Vitamin A.
• Pumpkins are often used for animals.
• Pumpkin flowers are edible.
• Pumpkins originated in Central America.
  In early colonial times, pumpkins were used as an ingredient for the crust of pies, not the filling.
• Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles and curing snake bites. (a loong time ago!)
• Pumpkins range in size from way less than a pound to over 1,000 pounds.
• The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,140 pounds.
• The name pumpkin orginated from "pepon" – the Greek word for "large melon."
• The Connecticut field variety is the traditional American pumpkin.
• Pumpkins are 90 percent water (that makes up the "shell" and "goo" inside.
• Eighty percent of the pumpkin supply in the United States is available in October. (Get yours at the Casselberry Pumpkin Patch!)
• In colonial times, Native Americans roasted long strips of pumpkin in an open fire.
  Colonists sliced off pumpkin tops; removed seeds and filled the insides with milk, spices and honey. This was baked in hot ashes and is the origin of pumpkin pie.