The Horrific History of Pumpkins - Seed to Harvest - Garden Documentary
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Published 2021-10-17
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Recipe:
Crust: Dehydrate about 4 cups of chickpeas in low oven. Once cooled, pulse with 1/2 cup of broken up frozen coconut oil and 1/4 cup of brown sugar. Form with spoon on 9 inch pie plate. Freeze.
Filling: cook 1/2 a butternut squash and 2 small sweet potatoes. Blend with 1 can of coconut milk, 1/4 cup of brown sugar and 1 tsp of pumpkin spice. Simmer until thicker, pour into frozen crust and bake for 1 hour at 350F
Created by: Siloe Oliveira
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Tips for growing squash from seed. Preparing the soil.
02:16 Origins of pumpkins and squash.
03:07 Sowing butternut squash directly.
03:26 Difference between pumpkin and squash.
04:29 Early uses of the pumpkin / Where did Jack-o-lantern come from?
05:29 Vine growth / Legend of Jack-o-lantern.
06:46 Importance of solar exposure
07:22 Squash and Mesoamerican mythology/ culture.
09:04 Vine fruit set - Potential pests and diseases.
10:37 Mexican ritual of sowing and harvesting Champola squash - green mole.
11:47 Squash and Mexican mythology.
12:42 Importance of Rain / water. Protecting against groundhog.
13:45 The rituals and mythology surrounding green mole (Mexican squash seed sauce).
16:15 Harvesting butternut squash.
16:54 Gluten-free vegan pumpkin pie recipe.
All Comments (21)
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BEST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE.
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Great work! If I’m being honest this is better than a lot of the documentaries on Netflix.
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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.
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Another historical masterpiece 👍🏼
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“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.
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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!
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Great video, yet again. As good as any gardening or botanical production as I’ve ever seen. Bravo
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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!
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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.
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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 💚
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Great video as always. A splash of history, splash of science and good story telling.
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This was amazing. I loved the history lesson and recipe!
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Haven’t watched it yet but I know it’s going to be good
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I love the fascinating history of winter squash
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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!
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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 YouTube!
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Amazing, as usual. Thank you for this, it's both educational, entertaining and artistic! You're so bloody talented.
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I am addicted to this channel. Love the photography too.
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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! 🎃
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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!
