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The Show => Pumpkin 'tastic => Topic started by: Doris_Pinks on October 05, 2005, 09:49:11

Title: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on October 05, 2005, 09:49:11

Yesterdays pick!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/MixedSquash.jpg)

Just love squash, they look so pretty!! Now where on earth am I going to store them, especially when the rest come in from the cold  :-\

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: wardy on October 05, 2005, 09:53:17

I see you've left the handles on - what a pro  ;D    Some of the stalks are dead prickly aren't they.  You need gloves to pick em up  :o   

I'm going to plot in  a bit to see if I have any more to pick.  I know I've left one in the car as I noticed it yesterday when I lifted the boot lid to put the shopping in  :)

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on October 05, 2005, 10:07:37

Hehehe  thats half the fun seeing what there is to pick, especially if they are romping through the undergrowth, you never quite know what you have got till the frosts come! 
My giant atlantic has headed off into the surrounding stinging nettles so I haven't got a clue if it has any fruit or not and I am not going in there to find out! :o

Yes they can be prickly and the leaves can make me itch! Gauntletts to pick more like! ;D

Left the handles on cos I read it helps to store them better, not a pro at all.........oh err missus! :o  :o  :o  ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: busy_lizzie on October 05, 2005, 11:33:23

They are magic DP!  :) busy_llzie

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: wardy on October 05, 2005, 14:29:54

Here are the last of them, picked this morning.  I found one of them hiding in amongst the tomatoes.  Couldn't see it til I got my head in amongst the toms so it was a pleasant surprise  :)

These are Crown Prince, Marina di Chioggia, Blue Hubbard and I think (could be wrong) Grey Crown  :)

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on October 05, 2005, 15:43:18

Cor they look fab Wardy! ;D ;D 

The surprise ones are the best! :)

 I have visions of us all stuck under piles of beautiful squash! ;D  ;D  ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: wardy on October 05, 2005, 15:49:49

Yeah, opening pantry door and getting buried in a pumpkin avalanche  ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on October 05, 2005, 15:55:10

Hehehe  if me biggest pumpkin landed on me it would kill me! Now there is a headline in the news, allotmenteer killed by giant pumpkin! ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: wardy on October 05, 2005, 15:57:59

Allotmenteer killed by Jumbo Pink Banana  ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on October 05, 2005, 16:22:13

WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Allotmenteer killed by a Turks Turban! ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: wardy on October 05, 2005, 16:47:26

What about the poor allotmenteer killed by a baby bear  :'(

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on October 05, 2005, 16:52:37

;D  ;D  ;D

Or the one killed by Lady Godiva

Or the one that committed Uchiki Kuri!

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: wardy on October 05, 2005, 18:15:16

Or did he commit Hokkaido?

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on October 05, 2005, 18:25:31

 ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Mrs Ava on October 05, 2005, 22:55:49

daft pair! :D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: kentishchloe on October 06, 2005, 16:39:54

Very impressive hauls there DP & Wardy.

How stupid am I  - i thought this thread was 'Pickling Pumpkins' when i first looked at it, you'd need some bloody big jars!!! ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Mrs Ava on October 06, 2005, 18:39:13

HAHAHAHAHAHA  Oh Chloe, that really made me larf owt lowd! ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: wardy on October 06, 2005, 20:01:12

I misread a message this morning where I thought Heidi said she brought her pot bellied pig into her conservatory for the winter  :o  She said pot bellied fig  ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on October 06, 2005, 21:11:12

WAHAHAHAHAHAHA  you lot!

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: Mrs Ava on October 07, 2005, 11:57:00

You know what's happening....end of season madness is setting in!  We are like honey bees high on our bountiful harvest and it is addling our brains.

Shall we all club together for the big white van to come and take us away - ha ha-hee hee-ho ho.  ::)

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: kentishchloe on October 07, 2005, 12:43:09

have stuck mattresses to walls of shed - will lock myself away til spring for everyone's safety. cheerio  ;D

Title: Re: Picking pumpkins
Post by: BAGGY on October 07, 2005, 22:33:09

You lot are bonkers !     .........   (I thought it said pickling pumpkins too - eeek)