We know how time consuming growing your own Vegetables & Herbs can be, but if you choose your crops carefully you're able to reduce your workload but still enjoy plenty of harvests.
Pumpkins, or Squash as we now like to call them, only started to arrive in Europe when the America's were discovered and Italy was a gateway for the first produce arriving back.
If you are tight on space then don't be afraid to grow your squash vertically. Here you can see how Rekha has grown Uchiki Kuri vertically with the aid of a very robust wigwam: