Pumpkin storage

Here in south Africa, pumpkins are not preserved as such.


Image source: http://thechancemuse.blogspot.co.za/2012/04/pumpkin-cafe-and-other-roadside-wonders.html

Normally they are grown, left to hang on a withering vine, and then harvested and placed on a hot tin roof to weather the winter.


The pumpkins and butternut that I harvested last year were taken off the vine before they withered,