Small Sugar is the pumpkin pie bakers have been growing since 1887, and it holds that job because of what is inside rather than what is outside. The flesh is dry rather than watery and has no stringiness in it, so a puree comes out thick and sweet instead of needing to be cooked down. Fruit runs six to eight pounds, small enough to handle and to roast whole, and the pumpkins keep well in a cool room long after the vine has gone. Direct sow once the soil has warmed, or start early and transplant. Give it a hundred days and a minimum of fifteen seeds come in the packet.

Open pollinated, untreated and GMO free seed, hand packed by Sow True Seed in Asheville, North Carolina.