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The Show => Pumpkin 'tastic => Topic started by: Moggle on April 13, 2005, 10:34:18
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I am starting a revolution to change the way people think about pumpkin! Pumpkins aren't just for carving you know! I can't believe that so many people carve them and then just chuck them out! >:(
Pumpkins are delicious. You can roast it with your sunday dinner! Makes lovely soup, is yummy in curry, you can boil it or steam it, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some of the other things. :D
This year I am growing Queensland Blue (aussie seed), Hybrid grey crown (aussie seed - fruit stores up to 10 months!), Crown Prince, and butternut.
I know I am probably preaching to the converted with a lot of you, but join the pumpkin revolution today ;D ;D ;D
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Makes wine too moggle! And you can snack on the seeds ;D I was converted years ago, life without squashes would be a very boring place!
Growing far too many to list, and looking forward to their beautiful looking fruits! ;D
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I grow them to eat, darling Ava likes me to grow them because they look so good! Even when we carve them I cook the insides. Love mash, soup, curry, cake and pie. In fact, pretty much anything I make that has veggies in it, like stews, has some squash or the other in. And I still have 7 different monsters in storeage and you know, they are all still in tip top condition.
Long Live the Squash!
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;D Youv'e got me interested Moggle is there still time to buy the seeds and plant out for this years crop? 8)
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Squashes, pumpkins and co are indeed wonderful veggies to grow. However, a warning to all pumpkin revolutionaries - don't leave any pumpkins on view in your allotment too close to Halloween, otherwise you may find kids nick them. This is what happened to mine last year. Bright orange beacons they must have been, particularly at that time of year when plants have died back making them even more visible!
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Yes Roy plenty of time. It says on my packets May - June. You can plant indoors May - June and then plant out when frost past, or direct into plot after frost
So stacks of time. I haven;t done mine yet :)
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Moggle - Long Pink Banana?
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;) Ta Wardy ;D
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dont forget the jams/preserves!
i made a huge pumpkin (2 stone!) into yummy preserve and sold that in aid of the hurricane and flood victims in haiti :)
the stuff flew off the shelves.
svea
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;D Youv'e got me interested Moggle is there still time to buy the seeds and plant out for this years crop? 8)
Roy, I will even check to see how many seeds I still have left from Aus and wing a couple to you if you like - anything to get you joining the revolution ;D ;D And you might still be able to get the freebies from Gardeners World too :)
However, a warning to all pumpkin revolutionaries - don't leave any pumpkins on view in your allotment too close to Halloween, otherwise you may find kids nick them. This is what happened to mine last year. Bright orange beacons they must have been, particularly at that time of year when plants have died back making them even more visible!
Oh dear Lizard Man, poor you. Sounds like a good reason to grow the blue/grey-skinned ones :) Crown Prince? something de choggia??
Moggle - Long Pink Banana?
Wardy! ::) ;D ;D
Oh yes and EJ I had forgotten cake, I made a syrup-type one ages ago. And Pumpkin pie, I could ask my sister who now lives in the US for a recipe.
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teehee Wardy, I too have a long pink banana, nothing to do with Ava I hasten to add! ::) ;D :o
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Roy, I will even check to see how many seeds I still have left from Aus and wing a couple to you if you like - anything to get you joining the revolution ;D ;D And you might still be able to get the freebies from Gardeners World too :)
Thanks Moggle, ;) My Wife tells me that my daughter has already picked me some up from town, not sure of the variety but will keep informed. ;) ;D
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Just an intelligent thought but to stop kids nicking them off the lottie grow different variaties as it would seem that they only interested in the big orange ones to carve up, i would imagine they wouldnt look twice at smaller different coloured variaties that would be just as tasty.
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I remove my big uns from the plot a couple of weeks before halloween, have had them pinched off our site before and I wont risk it!
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Okay, so I'll try a different variety next time. I only grew the classic 'Halloween' ones last year because the seeds were free and I thought my nephew and niece may like one to carve up (I did manage to get one to them just before the others were stolen).
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I've been given a few seeds of a pumpkin called 'Spooktacular' F1 (spelling may be a bit off). I'm guessing it must be an orange carving variety? Anyone know if it is?
The seeds look like large courgette seeds, does this mean they aren't the kind that I can dry and shove in with my bread dough?
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I'm growing some of those - they are small to medium sized - and its says on the packet perfect for carving and eating yummy
;D ;D
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Good stuff! Thank-you
:)
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I just love the sight of them growing, but yes,I removed them from plot early in case of theft!
Last yeat was national sunflower growing and I think this year is pumpkin! And those d**n kids were on gardeners world tonight sowing seeds after last years 900 and something lb >:(
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After seeing Gardeners world last night, I might have a go myself as I really liked some of the varieties.Those kids were great! and the pumpkin man knew his stuff.
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Yeah, all those varieties were impressive!
One of my Queensland Blue has germinated!!! And the hybrid grey crown are sown too!!
Shame that the bed that I am going to put them in still looks full of 'mud bricks' :-\
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Anyone grown the "Big Max" variety? I started them off about a week ago and now have them in my mini greenhouse.
I don't have any manure left and my compost heap is a closed container. Am I fighting a losing battle here?
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Lizardman - either grow the orange ones in between brambles, or grow some small ones as well so that you can pick and lob 'em at the thieves... or try Marina de Choggia - it is beyond doubt the least attractive-looking squash on the planet.
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What it lacks in beauty it makes up for in taste ;D Yum
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So I believe, Wardy (this is my first try with this particular variety) and full of vitamins AND heavily scented flowers too, I understand, and to be honest, I rather like the look of it - distinguished!
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Makes wine too moggle!
Ever made it Dottie?
Anyone got a recipe (bit early I know, but...)
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Did make it Diana, we were not that keen on the flavour! :) I will try and dig it out and post it for you. DP
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Thanks DP
What was it about the flavour you didn't like?
D
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Lizardman - either grow the orange ones in between brambles, or grow some small ones as well so that you can pick and lob 'em at the thieves... or try Marina de Choggia - it is beyond doubt the least attractive-looking squash on the planet.
Good ideas, Amazin. I don't think brambles would stop the little thieving thingies, but at least it would help me clear the brambles on my plot without me even touching them. And as for throwing produce at them (if they were ever caught red-handed - or should that be orange-handed, tee hee!), my aim is terrible and that would be too much of a waste. What about snares, electric fences or mines...?
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Mine field ;DNow we are talking! Never though of that one...
Anyone want any built :-X
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If only you could inject a mini depth-charge primed to go off if lifted. One pumpkin-splattered thief would surely be a deterrent!
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I was only joking. Hope I haven't started an allotmenteer's revolution!!! (Though the mini-depth charge sounds good...I'm still listening!)
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black powder,pipe,sawdust ;D
Fuse wire was speaker wire and car battery!
You think I am kidding but me and my mate blow up a pumpkin each year! soooooooooooo funny watching the chunks land on roof :o
Haven`t really tried it on vandal yet cos would end up in prison!!!
Note: To any vandals out there, my shed,compo heap and various veggies are armed and dangerous....... :-X
Ask and you may have,steal and you will be blown up
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I have carved pumpkins for many years and been guilty of throwing away the pulp each time :-[
So last year when i made my first attempt at actually growing them, i decided to be more productive with the pulp :)
I made so many pans of soup i cant tell you and i also make a huge pumpkin cake, that was lovely.
My son is disappointed that ive not grown them again this year as he loved the soup so much, but as a novice vegetable grower, i am attempting more new things this time round, but i will be watching all you pumpkin growers with keen interest and may have another bash at it myself next year :)
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Like you honeybee I got my first taste of pumpkin soup as my mate never ate the flesh just chucked it on the compy after making lanterns. I cooked up a panful and am now an addict ;D My mate is too. He never considered eating the flesh! Like me once he'd tasted the soup he was off and was roasting them with cumin and all sorts ;D Today we've sown the seeds given to me by LOZ Thanks Loz!!!!! Marina di Chioggia, Jumbo Pink Banana, Crown Prince, Sweet Mama, Winter Carnival, Autumn sommat or other. Can't wait for the pumpkin fest ;D
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Well i know i'm going to miss growing my pumpkins this year because you get addicted to not only the taste of them, but growing them too ;D
So maybe next year Wardy,i might be tapping you for a few of your seeds ;)
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I really wanna grow some Marina di Chioggia now!
Anyone got a couple of spare seeds? Swap for an aussie one?
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Mine are out on the table downstairs, I shall nip down and see if I have any left! ;D I'll get back to ya!! Moggle I can let you have 2 seeds if you wan't to give them a try! ;D (any others you fancy giving a go?) PM me your addy etc!
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No marinas but I have plenty of the Autumn (acorn type) ones and some Blue Hubbards (sposed to be very delicious indeedy) Let me know if you want some :)
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Yay DP, would love em! ;D
Wardy I'd like to try the blue hubbard please :)
Will PM you both
I wasn't supposed to be doing any more swaps this year :-[
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Ahem.............me either! :-[
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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
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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
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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 ???
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My pumkins are taking forever to show, I just hope they haven't all rotted off! :-\
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My butternut + Baby Bear are coming along nicely, but the rest are still contemplating their navels >:(
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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.
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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
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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!
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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 :)
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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