Heirloom Pumpkin Seeds
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Explore heirloom pumpkin and squash seeds for cooking, storage, and seed saving. Start with Seminole for a heat-tolerant vine or Long Island Cheese for a classic pie pumpkin. Compare maturity and space needs before planting. To save seed true to type, prevent unwanted crossing with other varieties of the same species.
What makes an heirloom
An open-pollinated variety with a history, typically passed down for fifty years or more. With pollination managed to prevent unwanted crossing, saved seed can grow true to the variety next season. That is how the Long Island Cheese survived from before the Civil War, and how the Seminole has fed the American South for centuries.
Classics worth saving
Seminole pumpkin seeds heat tolerant, vine borer resistant
Long Island Cheese pumpkin seeds the heirloom pie pumpkin
Dickinson the original Libby's canning pumpkin
Waltham Butternut the award-winning standard
Most of these are Cucurbita moschata, a species with useful, though variable, squash vine borer resistance that is central to our Kansas garden. If borers are your nemesis, start with the vine borer resistant collection. Free shipping on seed-only US orders of $30 or more.
Not sure which heirloom to grow? Read our Kansas guide to the best heirloom pumpkin varieties for Midwest gardens.
