2019 Tromba Competition

[veggiechicken]

Question is:- Do they need to be grown up anything--if they do, mine may be in for a shock.

Don't stand still for long or they'll be up your legs before you know it.

[fishpond]

I could come out with a raft of innuendos about "Big Richard", but I won't, this time.

[rary]

I think this may be a job better suited to someone considerably more interweb search savvy than me

Could you be referring to our old clucky friend by any chance

[Small pumpkin]

Could you be referring to our old clucky friend by any chance

VC did Spring to mind, as One of the many far more talented at the interweb googling thingy

Especially when I read they're Cucurbita moschata and I know my packet of seed say they're a cucurbita pepo?
At that point I gave up, my tiny little brain can't handle it

[SarrissUK]

This is the arch I used last year, and I am probably going to buy at least three more of these this year, for the plot. Very good arches for the price of them

https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-24...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

[kitty12345]

This is the arch I used last year, and I am probably going to buy at least three more of these this year, for the plot. Very good arches for the price of them

https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-24...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

I looked at that too! Either that or bamboo or plastic coated metal stakes topped with wire fencing shaped into an arch.

[Martin H]

I've got some tromba seeds and am going to plant some with my 2-year-old granddaughter next week, to see whether she enjoys watching something grow.

I'd better raise a few backups somewhere discreet, just in case I need to switcheroo at any point

[MyWifesBrassicas]

Does anyone use netting to allow their tromba to climb?
Is there an ideal net gauge that is good for climbing plants and also good for wildlife not becoming trapped/entangled

[Vegi potager]

I have an old 1.5m width arch that I use for squash along with the 15cm pea and bean netting across the arch. It can take the weight of at least 2 trombos (1 at each end) and one baby pumpkin plant in the middle. more that that and the leaf growth is too much and more prone to mildew.

4 out of 6 seeds have germinated and a couple have a true leaf already, at this rate it will be a jungle in the back room before I can start hardening them off for planting out. I might have until Easter before him indoors starts complaining about the triffids.

VP

[rary]

Just read an artical ina garden magazine, where it was said that trombos of a metre long were past eating, I'm glad no one told me that last year or possibly we would not have enjoyed eating my big one at christmas

[Urban]

Got some started going to try for 4 plants I think, hopefully will get enough trombas for the 2 of us, would it be worth growing these in the greenhouse? or would they take over

also Ive seen a a vid on youtube where a lady had hers growing in like a tunnel archway and she could walk through it, the trombas where growing nice and straight in the tunnel and it seemed very easy to pick them, I might try something like that

[Vegi potager]

Triffids V's little shop of horrors

4 out of 6 seeds have germinated and a couple have a true leaf already, at this rate it will be a jungle in the back room before I can start hardening them off for planting out. I might have until Easter before him indoors starts complaining about the triffids.

VP

Only on day 10 from Planting and third real leaf is out, I don't think I have until Easter! Next weekend the night time temps pick up so will pot on and move to the blowaway in the glass house. Still have time for the other 2 to come up?!

VP

[SarrissUK]

There's no need for them to be in a greenhouse - I got loads from three plants last year. I am growing three times that this year, but that is because I want more to mature so they will store better, and I'm also growing more in case we don't have such a wonderful summer as we did last year.

[kitty12345]

Sowing two seeds tonight

[Urban]

Yeh think I'll put a few more seeds in. Will try for 8