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Pumpkins: Fruits
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Pumpkins resting in a patch have an almost primordial appeal. Driving past, only the stone-hearted can resist pulling over to hoist them — cool, hefty, and smooth — off the ground. Their merits of shape and color are considered — ludicrously tall and yellow or fiendishly squat and brownish? No other fruit has such personality. Even the stems seem to tell a story.
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Come October, pumpkins can be found everywhere in the country from doorsteps to dinner tables. Despite the widespread carving that goes on in this country every autumn, few Americans really know why or when the jack o'lantern tradition began. Or, for that matter, whether the pumpkin is a fruit or a vegetable. Read on to find out!
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Jamie and Dave grew miniature pumpkins in their garden this year. They had a total of four vines that produced fruit. If the first vine produced nineteen pumpkins, the second vine produced ten pumpkins, the third vine produced sixteen pumpkins, and the fourth vine produced sixteen pumpkins, how many pumpkins did they grow altogether? If they sell the pumpkins for $4.86 each, how much money will they make?
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As pumpkins are drought resistant, they don't need much pesticides. Pumpkins tend to be more tolerant to insect damage than other vine crops, but farming vary a great deal, and some are susceptible to insect damage. It is now that agricultural ministry is getting people to be conversant with the damaging insects and how they can be controlled. Insects such as aphids are very significant vectors of plant pathogens. Information about insects in pumpkins is partially developed from work in other vine crops. The locals are only weeding and wait to harvest only bees are said to be interfering with the flowers and may cause some balls to fail in fruit production.
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Since some squash share the same botanical classifications as pumpkins, the names are frequently used interchangeably. In general, pumpkins have stems which are firmer, more rigid, pricklier, have +/- a 5 degree angle, and are squarer in shape than squash stems which are generally softer, more rounded, and more flared where joined to the fruit. [2] [3]
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