The Horrific History of Pumpkins - Seed to Harvest - Garden Documentary 

BEST CHANNEL ON RU-vid.

Great work! If I’m being honest this is better than a lot of the documentaries on Netflix.

A trick I learned to deter squash bugs is to plant radish seeds around your squash/pumpkin seed and let it grow right along with the squash but never harvesting the radish. I have had squash bugs so bad in years past but I didn’t see any this year after practicing this method. Very interesting video! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this for our education and entertainment.

Another historical masterpiece 👍🏼

“Live out the agrarian myth outside of 9 to 5” love that line! Winter squash and butternut squash have become a major part of our diet. They grow very well in our North Central Texas climate.

Wonderful information and great visual storytelling! Your videos keep me totally fascinated! When we mixed our compost from last year there had been a “ornamental” pumpkin in the compost, apparently. We started growing some potted veggie bags this year with that soil and several vines popped out of the mix. I transplanted the little vine babies into our flower beds and they grew to 35’ long down the driveway up the front porch trellis and produced several adorable pumpkins each a slightly different color and shape and gorgeous variegated leaves. One pumpkin even elegantly hung off of the house. It was our favorite garden happy accident of the year. Have a great day!

Great video, yet again. As good as any gardening or botanical production as I’ve ever seen. Bravo

Love the video. As always, very well produced piece. I especially enjoyed the history and mythology information about the indigenous people of Central and South America. At least when I was in school, that was a completely untouched facet of world history in my various history classes. Next year I plan to expand my garden by adding several squashes, including butternut and spaghetti squash.

Great video as always. A splash of history, splash of science and good story telling.

What a great video, thank you! Even though I am not good with plants, I really enjoy your videos about gardening and the history about the specific veggies 💚

This was amazing. I loved the history lesson and recipe!

Fantastic! My school garden middle schoolers are making squash pie from scratch this week and we will be watching this today. Thanks for your hard work!

I love the fascinating history of winter squash

I am addicted to this channel. Love the photography too.

Another worthy endeavor! The recipe I consider a bonus! Great job!

Dude your channel is AMAZING. This video should have millions of views. Excellent quality. The history lesson was super fascinating. I like that you included your sources. Please don’t ever change this is seriously gold. One of the best channels on RU-vid!

Amazing, as usual. Thank you for this, it's both educational, entertaining and artistic! You're so bloody talented.

Haven’t watched it yet but I know it’s going to be good

Another amazing one Siloe!!🧡🧡 We're on our third time watching it already. 😂😂❤️ With three kids watching with me it gets a bit lacking in concentration, someone has always missed some bit of the video. 😛 Good to see your plants did better this year than last. 👍 Our squash unfortunately succumbed to the drought this year (we had no rain for eight weeks, but for us freakishly hot weather here in Finland) so we had to buy the ingredients for our pumpkin soup and chocolate pumpkin cake. But there is always next year! 🎃

Thanks for another of your excellent videos. You seem to have gone into just as much depth and breadth as usual, but somehow managed to edit it down to just 22 minutes!

What a great video, I can tell you put in a lot of work! really interesting, inspiring and entertaining.

This is one of your best to date, good story, great editing, ideal length, perfect timing and most of all, the effort of seeing the pumping grow over time is fantastic.

So very nice to see true history of the pagan holidays on my favorite gardening show. Both informational and entertaining!

I grew a bumper crop of sugar pie pumpkins a couple of years ago - ended up canning them in chunks for use in soups and pastas. Also donated a whole bunch to a 4H group for teaching kids how to make things from an actual pumpkin. The following year I grew Cinderella pumpkins and Sweet Meat pumpkins in the same spot, thinking I would only get a few since they were so much larger. I had 32 pumpkins taking over my kitchen table - and most of them were big. I baked them, made a simple puree with water in the blender, then dehydrated the puree until it was crispy. Blended that into a powder and now have pumpkin powder that I can rehydrate in whatever quantity I need for baking (the cans in the store typically contain more puree than the recipe calls for, and I hate the wasted pumpkin). I always feel a little pang of sadness when I see the big displays of Halloween carving pumpkins at the store - knowing they will all be wasted, even though I've read that they aren't very good to eat since they are bred for color and size alone. This year I put butternuts in the pumpkin spot and they have yielded 25 sizable fruits. I think you are right about the sunlight - my beds are east facing but have non-stop sunlight most of the day. The squash absolutely love it! Mine ranged all over too - definitely plants that like to stretch out!

I can not wait to teach my children everything I just learned! I am so thankful that I was searching for ways to design my garden and I came across your masterclass video- instant subscriber - phenomenal work on these videos!!!!!

I love these videos. And I never thought of using chickpeas as pie crust. So that was cool. I find your videos are really easy to watch and focus on as you have so many tips and stories and graphics it really works for me. I’m sure it’s a lot of work. But thank you.

I always listen to RU-vid, but I watched every minute of all your seed-to-plate videos. Bravo.

Your idea of protecting pumpkins from groundhogs is stylish.

Another amazing work of educational art. Thanks!

Wonderful video! I love your animations, they're brilliant :) Also I learned a lot about the spooky (and kinda sad?)history of pumpkins , thank you!

I so enjoyed this. One gardener to another: I foil squash bugs on any growing squash by putting a light shovel full of compost in the center of the plant, then I cover the vine every 8" or so with another scoop of compost or whatever I'm using for mulch as it grows. The vines root under the cover. The plants stays growing and fruitful in spite of the borers.

Your videos are better than any netflix documentary I've watched. Your content is wholesome and ticks all the boxes.

Another beautifully made video! Pumpkins and winter squash are definitely one of my favorites to grow and eat. This was so fun to watch!

Squash cooked in fresh coconut milk with moringa leaves is my favorite...will cook tomorrow...yum...

This channel deserves so many more subs and likes - high quality, informative and entertaining

Your timing is spot on yet again😁 Things I never knew about this crop, things I never could've imagined.......lots of nervous guys walking around😫 I know pumpkin can treat diarrhea very effectively both in humans and animals but wasn't aware of the seed/parasite treatment. Up here our pumpkins did not do well for 2021. Of 12 vines I managed only 2 sad little ones about the size of an ice box watermelon. In the same area, my German Queen heirloom tomatoes grew tremendously! Other local growers experienced the same. Retail cost for trucked in started around $5/6 per pumpkin. That is 'down' to about $4/per now. Picture a typical dump cart with a hitch, loaded just above the sides and that's my spaghetti squash harvest this year. Gave some away for eating and marketed as "Poor Folk Pumpkins" that can be decorated then cooked and eaten. The rest will be baked and dehydrated for winter use, leaving some stored for fresh. Shameless promotion warning: Cosori dehydrators are well worth the investment! Butternut did fantastic, and this is the first year I was successful with acorn squash. I have copied your recipe to my notes and will put that squash to good use😋 Many thanks for another informative Sunday morning!

My new favourite chanel.. thank you ❤ I will never view pumpkin in the same way 🎃 an avid gardener/homesteader now binge watching your content from the SW of Western Australia

Video, perfect. Timing, perfect. Content research and presentation, perfect! Man, I hope this video is seen and enjoyed by anyone who loves to garden, folkloric history, and pumpkins!

Brilliant video. Absolutely excellent take on the history and value of winter squash / pumpkin. The saying, " you learn something every day." Well, this was part of that for me. Thank you for the content.

My pumkin pies are made of home-grown hubbard squash, but I need a Japanse style saw to open them.

Parabens! Que linda colheita. Your single butternut of last season reminds me of a time a few years ago when I planted a 3 sisters garden in a small plot in my homestead. The corn shot up to about my height, the beans climbed the stalks, and the squashes clung onto the wire strands of my simple fence. I was days away from a bountiful harvest when my goats escaped their enclosure and make quick work of my meager garden armor. When I chased them out I was left with 1 small ear of corn, a handful of beans, and one tight-sized North Georgia Candy Roaster squash. That single squash provided a ton of nutrition and sparked in me quite the curiosity for this often overlooked garden wonder.

As a long time squash aficionado of squash I love this. So much I didn't know! I thought ALL squash and pumpkin were native only to the Americas! I grew up in the interior of BC in Canada and there's a limit on what kind of starchy food crops would grow well. It was the north end of a large lake with steep mountains on both sides, and was just too cool and wet for grains. Squash, however loved it! They don't seem to care for extreme heat and like plenty of water. We would start building our squash beds a year or even several before planting. As it was mountainous we had no top soil to work with, only gravel and subsoil. We'd heap up layers of compost, straw, horse manure and the sub soil in a 4x4 foot pile. We would dump urine (we didn't have indoor plumbing and only had an outhouse and potties so all pee was saved) on the piles all winter to help everything break down. Over time of course there were eventually beds of beautiful garden soil, but it took many years. My all time favourite squash is Buttercup. I find it has the best balance of sweet, moist and starchy, and if it doesn't get too beat up, the skin is actually quite nice to eat. It doesn't keep as well as the Kubocha so its nice to grow some of those too for squash later in the winter. I like Butternut too, though I like Buttercup just a little better :) Acorns are just such small squash and I find the skin is often a bit too hard to eat. I don't much care for the watery type squashes, although I do grow one zuchini. I prefer scallopinni to zuchini as its a little firmer and I like the bright yellow saucer shape. The biggest struggle I have where I live now (Calgary AB) is hail! And with climate getting so strange there is more hail storms starting earlier in the year. I've started covering the garden with netting because the damage hail does is just terrible. Later on in the year the powdery mildew takes a toll, but there's often been at least a dozen or more fruit set by then, so its pretty much the end of the season at that point. I don't seem to struggle with pests, but then the winters are so cold and long, it knocks back a lot of pests and diseases that are an issue in more southern areas of the world. And yes I grow several of the useless pumpkin lol! I love all the colours and shapes they come in, and I also love halloween and pumpkin carving. I don't find them useless though. The vines are are beautiful and make a lovely ground cover. All parts of the plant ALSO make great compost to help break up the heavy clay soil we have here. Compost worms seem to LOVE their fruit, and I use the pumpkin flesh to make homemade food for my dog. He seems to like it quite well. The only trouble with growing SO many kinds of plants from this family is I can't save my own seed. They seem to cross pollinate readily with anything in their family, and quite often the volunteers that come up produce pretty inedible fruit.

I love pumpkin and squash and grow them for good and I'm an American. I think a lot of us are quiet squash lovers. Years ago a friend who grew up in the '50s on Cleveland told me how his mother would buy a huge Hubbard squash every fall, kept it in a cool place in the house, and would simply cut off slices as she needed for the meals she prepared.

I really appreciate all the work you put into this excellent program!

I love 🧡love 🧡 love 🧡 your channel !!! I love ❤️ the historical backgrounds of veggies. Of pumpkins 🎃 or whatever you talk about it is so vintage and old fashioned is absolutely unique and I love ❤️ that kind of humor. I love 🧡 how or where did the pumpkins come from and etc

I loooooove this channel so much. Please never stop posting 🙌

Another great video! Our success with zucchini this year is making me want to try butternut, too.

Wow!!! This was EVERYTHING! PLEASE DO MORE of these types of Videos!!!

beautiful work of art, again!!!!!

Awsome as always! Siloé for president!

These are always so well done .. I appreciate all the work put into them

@17:01 if you did the painting above the door with the bread that is so beautiful almost as beautiful as the artist🤍🇵🇷🌻😄🖌 your work is astonishing

Love the video and all information....awsome

I love squash and pumpkins. We had a really nice crop this year even with a difficult growing season.

Amazing video! So much work gone into it! Thanks :D

Another fantastic video Siloe!!! You make such great videos, thank you!🌞🌞🌞

I really enjoyed the history! Great video!

I love your recipes!

Thank you for sharing your many talents!

Your videos are fascinating and so well done! Please keep tem coming.

This is so cool how you include the history and how to create a garden from scratch. 🙂

I like how you did this video thank you it was very interesting.

I loved this! I had no idea they were so interesting.

What a great video! Sharing with my garden class families to watch!

Your videos are so inspiring, thank you, great content! You're truly talented.

Oh unbelievable! Just to know the history behind of any pumpkin is outstanding! Anyhow! Thank you for making me learn some more about them! Best Chanel and video on RU-vid! God bless 🙏🏼

Wow! First video I've seen of this channel and it was Amazing. Subscribe button pushed!

Such a fan of you work! So happy you chose this style and format for your videos.

Outstanding!

Great episode. Interesting facts and excellent visuals and storytelling.

Amazing video! Thank you so much for this!

This was incredible interesting and beautifully made! I truly learned so much and enjoyed this doc immensely!

Yes!! butternut squash makes an excellent pie! Which I discovered by selecting what I thought was pumpkin puree from my pantry freezer, made the "pumpkin" pie and every one commented on it's hearty flavor--much more like squash than pumpkin they said. LOL--I looked at the label only to find that I had chosen the "wrong" puree. Sometimes, life shows us discoveries that we think are "mistakes". Love your stories and channel. Nicely done and the gardens, too! Blessings Abound.

So interesting, thank you!

Thank you! And curried butternut squash soup, yum!

Great Work!

Thanks again for another GREAT video

Wonderful! Entertaining and educational. Plus recipe looked great. I think I will try. Thanks!

Great video, thank you ❤️

You need to make more videos my man, unmatched on RU-vid

Excellent video. Absolutely worth the wait. 😊

Wonderful informative video and the pie looked so delicious! 🥰🥧

Thank you again for an absolutely fantastic video. It is always worth the wait. This was so informative and beautiful to watch. Cheers from Esperance Western Australia. I just planted my butternut seedlings a week ago as the weather is beginning to warm here.

Absolutely perfect video! I love growing squash and gourds. Always bountiful and versatile. I also love when they cross pollinate and create some awesome mutant squash variety.

I'm so glad I found this channel 😊😛

Awesome video!! I watched it in full screen to honor the magnificent and detailed historical information. As always, I Love watching the progress of your gardens and the recipe at the end . . . Such a treat!

I love zucchinis and pumpkins and squashes. I love growing them and cooking them. And I don’t mind when they take over the garden with all the shapes and colors. Thanks for the recipe and another great story 🎃

How does this not have more views? Great video!

Great work !!! Made my Sunday 🥰

Again a wonderful and very interesting video 👍

thank you so very much for this and all your other videos 🧡 i cried and laughed and felt wholesome and motivated. your videos are so beautiful and informative, i wish i could join you in your garden and help you with your researches and make art together. thank you for giving me new hope that one day this will be my life too 💚

You have Superstars that make comments on your channel. One thing I do love about the common pumpkin is I always find a wide Tareen shaped gourd. I pour boiling water in it with salt. Let it sit for 20 minutes or so then pour it out and let it dry. I use it to either baked other holiday Foods inside. Or if done properly you can serve soup in it. I have had a table covered with a few mixed in with the other fall colored Pottery dishes. It made a gorgeous table setting. And my ever-loving neighborhood crows thank me later. Though the pumpkins that have had food baked in them taste pretty good. The one that was used for soup had only been blanched on the inside to not impart a bitter or acrid taste to the soup. Just some fun facts of what I do with pumpkins when I'm at my best. Thank you for another wonderful video I'm starting to doze. Not because your videos are lacking but because I guess I need a nap. And I might have been watching your videos starting at 3 a.m. Your new friend and admirer G.

Amazing work!

Very informative and Tru your amazing.

Já virou meu canal predileto, estou literalmente maratonando! Aqui tem meu estilo favorito de storytelling e estética junto com um dos meus assuntos mais amados! Que oásis, viu?

Wow! I am so glad I found this channel! The quality and content of every video I have watched is stellar. Keep up the excellent work!

Thanks for such a delightful and informative video. Well narrated and the research is top tier. I have to try your recipe.

Here in the drylands of Brazil ("Sertão") squash are central to our diet, being one of the few vegetables that we have available for 5-6 months after harvest. We even eat large chunks cooked in a steamer for breakfast. The longer you keep them, the sweeter they get!

Hi Siloe, l must confess that I've never tried pumpkin or squash before, however after seeing yet another superb well informative video of the rather colourful history of pumkin🥧.Bravo, and your pie looks and tasty and scrumptious! right with you at the dining table.You've just inspired me to try this out for the first time ever..Thank you for your time, effort, and research. Looking forward as ever to the next one..

This is probably my favorite video. Fall is my favorite time of year, and I love growing pumpkins, gourds,and squashes. Your pie looked delicious. I like the idea of it being plant based!