Picking pumpkins

[Doris_Pinks]

Yesterdays pick!



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  :-\

[Doris_Pinks]

[wardy]

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  :)

[Doris_Pinks]

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

[busy_lizzie]

They are magic DP!  :) busy_llzie

[wardy]

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  :)

[Doris_Pinks]

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

[wardy]

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

[Doris_Pinks]

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

[wardy]

Allotmenteer killed by Jumbo Pink Banana  ;D

[Doris_Pinks]

WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Allotmenteer killed by a Turks Turban! ;D

[wardy]

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

[Doris_Pinks]

;D  ;D  ;D

Or the one killed by Lady Godiva

Or the one that committed Uchiki Kuri!

[wardy]

Or did he commit Hokkaido?

[Doris_Pinks]

 ;D

[Mrs Ava]

daft pair! :D

[kentishchloe]

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

[Mrs Ava]

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

[wardy]

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

[Doris_Pinks]

WAHAHAHAHAHAHA  you lot!

[Mrs Ava]

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.  ::)