Giant pumpkin

[1Bee]

Here's my harvest.

This one's the biggest. Either a Musquee de Provence or a rouge vif d'etamps, got mixed up!



Here are some of the runners up.
There's more on the patch, but just little ones that may not ripen.

They make me happy.

[Mr Bones]

Here's my harvest.

This one's the biggest. Either a Musquee de Provence or a rouge vif d'etamps, got mixed up!

Nice one Bee, that's a classic pumpkin shape

[Mr Bones]

Latest pic

[1Bee]

Oooh nice.

[seasprout]

Pumpkin update.

Well I finally braved the nettles in the field next door. I have about 9 or 10 queensland blue all a decent size and a few really quite big (4 a bit bigger than football size and one verging on beach ball size). Have cut back nettles and excess squash leaves to get some sun on them, & repositioned a couple that were about to roll down the slope!

Have one uchiki kiri to try, & looks like I might get a couple of spaghetti squash after all.

Considering the slug invasion earlier in the year I'm quite pleased

How are Humphry, Pamela, and the rest doing?

Well thankyou for asking after a Pamela.

She's been picked, the foliage started to yellow & we've had some quite cold nights. So today I picked Pamela and weighed her.

24.93KG




I will try and take a better photo of Pamela tomorrow.

My first ever giant pumpkin attempt, no manure only old compost and liquid seaweed plant food.

[Small pumpkin]

Wow!! Pamela is brilliant.
Well done you ....... And Pamela





Don't think Humphrey is even going to get into double figures

[happyhumph]

Gosh - Pamela is a beauty!

[Zelenina]

Wow! A very successful giant pumpkin attempt!

[Mr Bones]

Nice one Seasprout, that's a beaut

[johnjohn]

Hello strangers, my offerings lifted yesterday:


I had thought the bottom one was the largest but it turns out the top one was a couple of kilo's heavier.

[johnjohn]

Bottom one 21Kg:

[johnjohn]

Top one 23Kg:

[burnie]

Only ever grew one once, carved it with the kids for Halloween and it ended up on the bonfire a few days later, wasn't as big as those though.

[Small pumpkin]

Humphrey has been harvested. He's a very disappointing 6.3kg.

One of my jack o lanterns last year was bigger.

[Mr Bones]

Well, not quite a whopper, ours weighed in at just over 19kg. Started measuring for the lotty site competition today, so far the leader weighs in at 76kg