Deep Joy!

[markymark]

Whats the world coming too?..........months upon months of nurturing your giant pumpkins (so to speak...tee hee) and some bar steward cuts them from the stem and tries to pinch them!........bloomin cheek. Only saving grace was they weren't easy to lift so before they could come back I managed to harvest them and bring them home to tuck up in bed.

Supposed I was lucky they didn't trash them instead.......GGGGgrrrrr

[markymark]

[ina]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr is right!

[Wicker]

I'm finally catching on to the subtle ways used to get round the "censor"   ;) couldn't think why on someoen would want pumpkin in a bar, bit big for slices in the drinks!
Very clever Marky but seriously really despicable about the attempted thefts, far too common all this thieving.

[Doris_Pinks]

Marky that's why I cut mine early this year, a plot holder near to me had all his pinched before Halloween last year..............so I removed temptation!  Why people think they have a right to someone elses hard work is baffling to me! Glad you rescued yours.

[Palustris]

TALOIA
But on another tack, why grow giant pumpkins in the first place?. I am not decrying the skill or patience involved, but why? Are they as edible as the small Winter squashes which we grow, like Onion Squash and Buttercup etc? The only one I have ever seen opened up was virtually hollow except for gillions of seeds. If the flesh is good then one 75 kilo one would feed us for an awfiul long time.
Just wondered that's all.

[Mimi]

Bit slow me Eric but what on earth does TALOIA stand for ??? ???

[Doris_Pinks]

Eric, the only reason I am growing them is for Halloween, to carve! I personally think Pumpkin flesh tastes, well, waterey and therefore revolting! DP

[budgiebreeder]

I still have the piccies of the ones you carved last year Dp brilliant they were .Do post  some piccies of this years please.

[Doris_Pinks]

Will do BB, must ask Dan for a Pumpkin competition slot!

[Mrs Ava]

I grow a couple of whoppers just for the kids to carve at Halloween.  All of the insides that are cut out go into making a huge couldron of spicy apple and pumpkin soup, so it doesn't matter that the flavour is watery, by the time I have flung in ear of bat and tail of mouse, followed by plenty of fresh chillies and salt and pepper, the taste is delish!   ;D

[Palustris]

TALOIA = T here's A L ot O f I t A bout

[Roy Bham UK]

BTW IMHO I didn't know that ;D

[tim]

Quite off the point, but 'deep joy' reminds me so strongly of our dear departed & sadly missed Stanley Unwin - one of gentle comedy's best exponents. And totally original. Lovely that you can still Google all his great works, & catch up with some of the words you missed. = Tim

[SpeedyMango]

I grow a couple of whoppers just for the kids to carve at Halloween.  All of the insides that are cut out go into making a huge couldron of spicy apple and pumpkin soup

Have you got a recipe for that? Sounds fab, and I want to find things to do with my crop of 8 pumpkins (not very big though, only a couple of carvers in there).