Topic: The pumpkin revolution!

[Doris_Pinks]

Ahem.............me either! :-[

[wardy]

Moggle     I have done your parcel with Blue Hubbards and some Autumn Harvest

I'll post it later  ;D

I need some cucumbers and the Australian squashes you mentioned.  Ta very muchly

Wardy

[Moggle]

Moggle     I have done your parcel with Blue Hubbards and some Autumn Harvest

I'll post it later  ;D

I need some cucumbers and the Australian squashes you mentioned.  Ta very muchly

Cheers Wardy  :) See the PM I have sent you

Well I think I've decided to try growing pumpkins as a weed suppressant on the weedy bottom half of my lotte  :) Will hopefully be supporting this theory with practice soon  :) And photos  ;D

[wardy]

I've got some seeds in but no sign of them yet.  I should have taken them back home and put them in the warm but forgot to take a box to put them in.  Doh  ???

[Doris_Pinks]

My pumkins are taking forever to show, I just hope they haven't all rotted off! :-\

[Diana]

My butternut + Baby Bear are coming along nicely, but the rest are still contemplating their navels >:(

[Moggle]

I have one queensland blue up, and one Hybrid grey, with one HG still to emerge. Sowed a couple of crown prince and a butternut on the weekend too.
I hastily dug down and repositioned seeds after Gardeners World a few weeks ago when they said to make sure you plant the seed with the flat faces vertical, to help stop water sitting on the seeds - promoting rotting?
My seeds are in the mini-greenhouse.

[busy_lizzie]

DorisP.  Hurrah!  You will be pleased to hear all your little offspring Squashes are up, looking vibrant and strong.  Could almost imagine them exploding out of their pots they are so vigorous looking.  Like you though, there are no signs of the pumpkins coming up yet.  I wondered whether I should have chipped the seeds before I planted them to help them on their way?  :) busy_lizzie     

[Doris_Pinks]

Glad to hear that BL  ;D  Will have to go in the greenhouse to have a looksie at mine!  I have never bothered to chip squash types, I think it is just cos they haven't had some lovely warm weather to help them along!

[wardy]

I've been to the plot to retrieve my no show seedlings (too cold for them to germinate in my shed).  They are now tucked up warm in my dining room.  Bless  :)  I want to be eating pumpkin soup etc daily by the end of the year so must look after them  :)

[foxx]

i glad 2 hear about your enthusiasm for pumpkins ( i thought i was the only crazy one!!!) had great success growing pumpkins for the first time last year managed to get 2 fruits off it. They kept real well didnt eat them till this march.Growing crown prince and a hybred i picked up in canada last year on my hols the seedlings are doing well so far :D