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    missing a couple of the festivals and a pumpkin. Had a butternut tonight with dinner, very nice it was too....

    chrisc

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    Spot the odd one out! haha

    Very nice harvest.
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    • #3
      Whoah... I am soooo jealous! Well done that Grape - I obviously need to feed mine beer next year.

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      • #4
        Have you any of the "Beer Bottle" squash seed left...I'd be very interested in some, I can let you have empty glass's if that's a help...

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        • #5
          What varieties are these, Chris? I think that I recognise red kuri, and the butternut, but the ones at the back look a sensible size for next year, maybe - depending on the taste?

          Cracking harvest!

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          • #6
            the ones at back-left are Festival F1, and look like a larger version of my Hooligans.

            What a haul, well done.
            Last edited by Two_Sheds; 28-09-2009, 08:31 AM.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
              the ones at back-left are Festival F1, and look like a larger version of my Hooligans.

              What a haul, well done.

              Well spotted that Grape.... anyone got the greeny-black buttercups yet?

              chrisc

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              • #8
                I've got about 30 Winter Festivals to pick. Are the greeny black ones Marina De Chioggia? The stems look similar to mine....
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by HayleyB View Post
                  I've got about 30 Winter Festivals to pick. Are the greeny black ones Marina De Chioggia? The stems look similar to mine....
                  Close, but no Big Pink Banana.... they're Bon-Bon

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by ginger ninger View Post
                    Have you any of the "Beer Bottle" squash seed left...I'd be very interested in some, I can let you have empty glass's if that's a help...
                    It's not beer... Wychwood Green Goblin cider.... very nice with my lunch on a hot day it was too.....

                    chrisc

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                    • #11
                      Very nice!! Am quite jealous as this year I only got a single butternut squash and it is the size of a tennis ball....
                      If it ain't broke...fix it til it is!

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                      • #12
                        nice haul!!!
                        How big was the pumpkin patch?
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                        • #13
                          Brilliant! I'm noting down those varieties. Puts my little haul of 5 squash to shame (from one plant, though). well done!

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                          • #14
                            I had a lot of space for squash this year as I was using it as weed smother over the plastic mulch.... THink I had four festivals, two bon-bon, two Uchiki kuri, one Waltham and four harriers. All the pumpkins off a single unknown plant. Had others but got murdered by a hailstorm (lost a harrier adn at least two Walthams to it and it hurt the UK enough that the bon-bons overgrew them for a while..... Next year will be more organised as I klnow more about what I'm doing adn they'll be out earlier under cloches, a lot more regimented rather than all over the place, with frames to grow on and more manure for everything.... will repeat the mulching out of their space though, didn't water them at all after they'd been planted out.

                            chrisc

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by chriscross1966 View Post
                              will repeat the mulching out of their space though, didn't water them at all after they'd been planted out.
                              It really is worthwhile: I mulched each of my squashes with a few copies of the Times (it's thick) ... I just dug all the foliage out this week, and the soil under the newspaper was lovely: dark, moist and crumbly

                              Whereas the rest of the plot is like dust (50 days with no rain*, dontcha know)

                              * ok, one small shower
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