pumpkin problem

[Lavenderblue]

Last year we took ours off the plant when some were still green and stored them - made the last one into chutney in march!

[HelenLee]

last year we used the last of our pumpkins on Christmas eve to make a pumpkin pie! They had just sat in the corner of the dining room at home, no special treatment!

[chriscross1966]

last year we used the last of our pumpkins on Christmas eve to make a pumpkin pie! They had just sat in the corner of the dining room at home, no special treatment!

Wow, I shudder to think how much trouble I'ds be in if I used the dining room as a vegetable store
Plus.... I have about 50 squashes and pumpkins.... the dining room isn't that big.......

chrisc

[darkcrystal]

well i thought i would put a couple of photos of my first ever home grown pumpkin, im very proud of it, i am very proud of it.

[Dianne1234567]

Wow that looks great, hope mine turn out like that.

[chriscross1966]

My first one started ripening back in July.... it's sounded hollow for the last week or so so I took it off last night..... haven't weighed it yet but here's a picture of it. I didn't let the plant set another fruit until this one started ripening then allowed it to set a few.... I reckon I'll get another four or five off it..... I shouldn't ahve been doing that it isn't a giant vatriety so I'm guessing its soemthign like Ghostrider or Jack, it's a bit big for a Becky but nothering like big enough (or really the right shape) for Hundredweight, let alone Atlantic Giant. I'll be growing an AG plus Becky and Hooligan next year....

chrisc

[chriscross1966]

please help!? xx

It is getting to that time of year.... you could try a chilli or tomato feed with magnesium in but tbf it's unlikey to be magnesium deficiency now, they won't be growing at the furious rate they were a month or so ago and the roots will have caught up with the tops....

chrisc

[annianni]

They look great - we've left ours (1st time pumpkiners!) in the veg garden for now, but I will take above advice and raise them off the ground. They are pretty big, and so I shall be scouring for good pumpkin recipes, and will post here if they work out well!

[Demeter]

I harvested my two hallowe'en pumpkins today and proudly brought them home. They are on the living room table taking up all the space! I may get a couple more off another plant that hasn't yet died and has some smallish unripe fruit on it, but I have two in the bank and that's all right.

Next year I think I will try a smaller variety to get a greater number of pumpkins that I can actually eat. I won't get much of these two as they are for carving and I'll be lucky to rescue a few scrapings from the inside for the pot.

[darkcrystal]

yes i have 4 pumpkins now, 3 biggish ones and then a smaller one, im very pleased with them and im defently growing again, the plant is compleatly dead now so no more pumpkins for me, but as i was hoping i would at least get one, im not complaining they are now in the kitchen the last two are on the window sil getting the sun, as one still has green on it.

[SimonA]

My plants have looked dead for a few weeks now, I have left the pumpkins on the plants to ripen. One is now a nice shade of orange and the others are still changing.

I'll maybe bring the rip one home, just in case the local scallywag kids see it.

[chriscross1966]

We're luck y with how off the beaten tracks out site is... there are a cuople of absolute monsters on some of the plots near me.... one guy growing Atlantic Giants, the other what I think is Big Max (big but spherical, very different to the shape of an AG anyway.. THat siad it's one of the few things I wouldn't leave on the site, I guess because come autumn kids who you could drag to vegetables with wild horses will be interested in pumpkins..... they'd need lifting gear to get those big ones out, though there are plenty of folk growing other biggish ones

chrisc

[maytreefrannie]

I'm growing Jack-o-Lantern, two fruits on the plant, the bigger one is about football sized and is starting to go yellow in places.

I'm guessing this means it won't grow any more? Should I pick it now and bring it indoors, or is it OK to leave it outside for a while longer?

[darkcrystal]

i left mine until it was almost completly orange and then i put them on the windowsil......one of the floor is still got green spots but i think thats the skin.......but just watch the weather now as it is getting colder.

[Lavenderblue]

here are a few of ours - think these are new england pie