Perhaps you’ve seen pepitas at your local grocery store or found them in your granola. These tasty green seeds can be a bit pricey, so it’s natural for any gardener to wonder if growing pepitas in the home garden is possible. First, we need to figure out what they are. Are Pepitas Pumpkin Seeds? You may have heard that “pepitas” is another term for pumpkin seeds. Yet, the pepitas at the store don’t look like the seeds that come from homegrown pumpkins. Pepitas have a fine papery skin, much like hulled sunflower seeds. So, are pepitas simply hulled pumpkin seeds? While that seems logical, pepitas are not produced by hulling ordinary pumpkin seeds. Unlike the hard-shelled seeds that most gardeners find inside garden-grown pumpkins, pepitas come from a special type of winter squash called oilseed pumpkins. These varieties are sometimes referred to as naked seeded, hulless, or Styrian pumpkins. They […]
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