Is your pumpkin still growing?

[Snadger]

Mine appears to be!

[Jeanied]

How can you tell, Snadger? Mine has not grown any bigger (thank goodness) and is slowly turning more and more orange - the feeder stem is still green and not collapsed at all. Some foliage still on the plant but turning mildewed by now. So my question is - when to cut it off, take it home and cosset it?

[Snadger]

I suppose the only way is to check the circumference and see if it's getting any bigger each day!

[Jeanied]

Hey Snadge - that would be great if I could lift the darn thing!! Does it stop growing when the colour starts to turn?

[Snadger]

Hey Snadge - that would be great if I could lift the darn thing!! Does it stop growing when the colour starts to turn?

You don't need to lift it to measure the circumference! Think they do change colour as they ripen!

[Jeanied]

You don't need to lift it to measure the circumference!

So how do you measure circumference? I always thought it was the widest bit around the middle. Maybe its a man measuring thing

[shirlthegirl43]

My pumpkins are the size of snooker balls and not getting any bigger

[maytreefrannie]

So my question is - when to cut it off, take it home and cosset it?

That's my question too - mine is yellowing but still has a way to go - should I take it off and bring it indoors ? And is there any special instructions about keeping it to ripen?

thanks in advance - it's years since I last grew a pumpkin, so I need a bit of steering in the right direction.

[Wareagle]

My pumpkins are the size of snooker balls and not getting any bigger

My pumpkins are about the same, dont think i'll bother with them next year.

[ginger ninger]

My big pumpkin's stopped growing, its going a really nice orange colour now. But the smaller one's I think are still growing, its the first time I've grown them, but I don't think I'll be growing them again, they take up far too much room.

[Snadger]

, its the first time I've grown them, but I don't think I'll be growing them again, they take up far too much room.

Not if you pocket garden............just let them ramble among the pockets!

[HayleyB]

Mine took over the world some time back, got one good orange one still growing but a couple of little oranges that are a bit pathetic. My Marina Chioggias are doing rather well and I have about 30-50 Winter Festivals that are filling out nicely...

[zazen999]

I put mine on the edges and they ramble over the paths....although a couple were making a break for freedom inbetween the rasps but I let them and just cut back their tendrils when they started to drag the rasps down.

Mine aren't still growing......I'd have noticed.

[gojiberry]

I have two the size of footballs that started to change colour so I cut them off and they are on the patio ripening. There is at least one more but it is still green so is being left alone for now. I have some others that are torpedo shaped but I don't know if they change colour so they are being left as well.

Ian

[Shortie]

Mine took over the world some time back,

I'm growing only in my garden now and forgot just how invasive these tasty blighters could be given a chance - as in...I didn[t realise they were climbing their way round next door back garden fence until they casually dropped it into conversation

Because of that, next year I'm trying bushy varieties of butternuts and avoiding trailing ones, to see if they are any better