Sarah Hinde's smashing pumpkins in Kambah taste great in homemade lasagne

By Susan Parsons
Updated May 8 2015 - 4:15pm, first published April 21 2015 - 11:45pm
Sarah Hinde with her dog Kirby among the pumpkin vines in her garden in Kambah. Photo: Melissa Adams
Sarah Hinde with her dog Kirby among the pumpkin vines in her garden in Kambah. Photo: Melissa Adams
Sarah Hinde's home-grown collection for vegetable lasagne.  Photo: Melissa Adams
Sarah Hinde's home-grown collection for vegetable lasagne. Photo: Melissa Adams
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In a back garden in Kambah a vast planting of pumpkins has created a field of 50 butternuts. Sarah Hinde is a novice gardener so, when it came to purchasing seedlings, she somewhat enthusiastically bought six pumpkin plants. The vines have thrived in a raised area with good soil and lots of mulch and, as the pumpkins cure, each has been placed on a folded bed of cardboard to stop them rotting by sitting on the ground. The beds receive plenty of water running off Mt Taylor.

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