Bliss Pumpkin Seeds | Mottled Green & Orange Winter Squash

Distinctive Color, Savory Kitchen Possibilities

Bliss pumpkin produces unusual green-and-orange mottled fruit with dark yellow to orange flesh. The patterned skin resembles a frog's skin, giving each harvest visual interest, while the flesh is well suited to curries and other savory dishes.

Give these vigorous plants room to grow in your sunny vegetable garden and allow a long, warm season for the fruit to mature. Bring a homegrown pumpkin to the kitchen for a warming curry or a hearty cooked squash dish.

What You Are Ordering

• Product: Seeds for planting, not live plants or harvested pumpkins.
• Variety: Bliss pumpkin, a specialty winter squash.
• Pack options: Choose 10, 25, or 100 seeds from the available sizes.
• Fruit appearance: Mottled green and orange skin with long, slender stems.
• Flesh: Dark yellow to orange.
• Typical fruit weight: Approximately 5–7 lb; actual size varies with growing conditions.
• Growth: Vigorous plants with later maturity; allow sufficient frost-free growing time.

Direct Sowing

1. Choose a sunny site with fertile, well-drained soil. A soil pH around 5.8–6.8 is suitable.
2. Sow in late spring after frost danger has passed and soil reaches at least 70°F (21°C).
3. Sow seeds approximately 1/2–1 inch deep and keep the soil moist without waterlogging.
4. Sow two seeds at each planting position, then thin to the strongest seedling once established. Allow generous space for vines to spread.

Starting Indoors

Start approximately 3 weeks before transplanting. Sow 2–3 seeds per individual container, keep warm, and thin with scissors to one plant per container. Gradually harden seedlings off over 4–7 days before planting outdoors after frost danger has passed. Handle carefully to minimize root disturbance.

Growing Care and Pollination

Water consistently during active growth and provide enough room for the vigorous vines. If using row covers to protect young seedlings, remove them when flowering begins so pollinators can reach the flowers. Poor fruit development may indicate insufficient pollination.

Harvest and Storage

Allow fruit to mature fully, with a firm rind, and harvest before freezing weather. Cut the stem rather than pulling the fruit from the vine, and avoid lifting pumpkins by their stems.

Protect mature fruit from prolonged harsh sun after the foliage dies back, which can reduce skin and stem color quality. Cure sound fruit in a warm, dry, well-ventilated location protected from rain and frost before storing in a cool, dry place. Inspect regularly and use damaged fruit promptly.

Kitchen Use

Use the yellow-orange flesh in curries, stews, and other cooked savory dishes. Remove the skin and seed cavity as needed for your recipe.

Planting seed only: Do not eat the supplied seeds. Discard any harvested squash that tastes unusually bitter.