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I've pollinated one of the female butternut pumpkins with the male flowers of the halloween type I have growing to see what I get. Won't have any results for another year until the new seeds I get are sown. The fruit is developing nicely.
I've been growing tomatoes for several years now too, collecting seeds as I go. Many different types of tomatoes and plenty of bees around, I've now got some new hybrids developing. Some really nice, others, well, just tomatoes. One particular hybrid is just awesome, and I named it after my wife, big, red and juicy and very sweet - the tomato, not the wife... Another hybrid I got from my mum - tremendously vigorous vine, and many kg's of walnut size sweet fruit.
I did grow a French heirloom pumpkin one time. The fruit was fine, just very watery compared to the types of pumpkins we get at the shops here in Oz. Not as sweet either. I prefer the butternut type.
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