This is what I love about pumpkins and squash they give you such an early reward. On Tuesday I sowed, Queensland blues, my pumpkins from last year, butternut squash and my competition Mammoth, pumpkin. Yesterday I looked in the airing cupboard and saw that most of them were straining against the cling film that I had put over the pots. I now have 5 really chunky and vigourous looking Queensland Blue, 4 sturdy last years and two stonking looking butternut squash. They are little monsters. I only have two more butternuts and my Mammoth ones to come up. I am supposing the Mammoth might take a bit longer with it being a whoppa. But it's great news and a pleasure to see - they seem to have grown every time I look at them. :D busy_lizzie