Harvested pumpkins tonight - whoppers!

[Suzanne]

I'll take a piccy tomorrow - but can't believe what I have off my plants this year given the weather. I am feeling very happy at the moment - my OH who doesn't particularly like squash is in deep depression..

1 plant Crown Prince - 4 fruits (about 5 - 7kg each)
1 plant Amish Sugar Pie - 4 - 2 of which are large about 10 -12 kg each and 2 smaller about 5 kg each)
1 plant Buttercup bush - courtesy of Jeannine (Barnsdale swop) - 1 of 4kg and 1 of 1.5 kg.
1 plant Triamble - 2 fruits (about 3 kg each)
1 plant Sprinter - 3 of about 3kg each
1 plant Potimarron  - courtesy of seed swap not sure whose at the mo - 3 fruits about 3kg each
1 plant Sucrine de Berry - 14 fruits all aout 1 kg each
1 plant Jack be little - 13 fruits about 500g each.
1 plant Godiva - 1 fruit but haven;t harvested seeds yet.


  So happy and they look so pretty ......very hallow'een

[Suzanne]

Piccies as promised. The Turks turban is from last years harvest and seeing out its second Hallow'een.

[manicscousers]

looks like a lovely, harvest decoration 

[ktlawson]

What are you going to do with them all

[Jeannine]

Wow, well done and well done again... smashing..what more can I say!!!

 Jeannine XX

[Suzanne]

What are you going to do with them all

Hopefully eat them so trawling the net for lots of different squash recipes. Also will give a fair few away to family and friends etc.

But I definitely have the squash bug - they are just so beautiful and so much variety. If I get the extra land I want for next year I will grow more and see how I do at a Farmers Market or a WI Country market.

[littlebabybird]

Suzanne well done they look great

what is the name of the one on the front row far left, what a brilliant shape
lbb

[debster]

wow they are brilliant surprised noone helped themselves to them

[thifasmom]

what a lovely haul , they are so beautiful.

were they all planted in the same area, how much space did you allocate?

i want to do at least 2 pumpkin and 4 squash varieties and i have approx 11ft x 14ft of space. i was hoping to plant two of each variety, do you think this is enough space for 12 plants?

did you manure the ground or just planted with out any real prep? did you feed?

thanks in advance for you reply .

[dtw]

I picked mine tonight, the biggest was about 40lbs.

It's a Dill's Atlantic Giant.

[Bryan]

dtw,
you should have wiped your boots off on the mat, not on the pumpkin, LOL!!
Nice one mate!!
Bryan.

[susan1]

I picked the 1st on a week ago sunday cos we had help to lift it, it measured 65inches and weighed in at 83Lbs, picked the last 2 today 10lbs and 6lbs, all drying in the conservatory, but a question though , how long do they need to dry before storing them  in a cooler place?

[Suzanne]

Suzanne well done they look great

what is the name of the one on the front row far left, what a brilliant shape
lbb

If you mean the dark green one - thats triamble - it has three corners. Again a suggeston from Jeannine as she said they taste better than Crown Prince and I do love Crown Prince.

[Suzanne]

what a lovely haul , they are so beautiful.

were they all planted in the same area, how much space did you allocate?

i want to do at least 2 pumpkin and 4 squash varieties and i have approx 11ft x 14ft of space. i was hoping to plant two of each variety, do you think this is enough space for 12 plants?

did you manure the ground or just planted with out any real prep? did you feed?

thanks in advance for you reply .

They were gorwon in two beds each about 8m (24ft?) by 1.2m (4ft) wide - 5 plants to each bed.  I am not sure that the space you have would take 12 plants as they do cover a lot of ground. The vines from mine escaped onto other beds as well and some found my climbing bean frames and had a climb up those as well. However there are bush varieties - and thanks again to Jeannine (she is very generous with seed) I grew a bush buttercup which took less room than a courgette plant.

I did manure the ares they were to be planted with a bit of cow manure plus some chicken manure pellets. I didn't feed at all this year after that.

Hope this helps a bit.

[Atlantic Giant]

Piccies as promised. The Turks turban is from last years harvest and seeing out its second Hallow'een.

nice pumpkins suzanne!!
good job!
here my harvest from 2008

[saddad]

Great pictures, welcome to the site Atlantic Giant... 

[Atlantic Giant]

Many thanks for the welcome,Summary

[1066]

Wow! So many varieties.
What variety are the long thin ones at the front of your pictures?
Oh, and welcome to the site
1066

[Atlantic Giant]

Hi 1066.And thanks for the welcome.
The long thin ones are calabashes.
Does one write thus? Please, excuse my bad English.
This is Long Gourds, Marenka and Dipper.

[thifasmom]

wow . how much space do you allocate to grow such a wondrous crop.