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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: mysterio_3d on March 07, 2008, 17:50:00

Title: Pumpkins
Post by: mysterio_3d on March 07, 2008, 17:50:00
Jeez, they grow fast!

Seed to 60mm in 4 days.

Hoping to stick em in the rougher patch to help with weed control.
Title: Re: Pumpkins
Post by: gunnerbee on March 07, 2008, 18:53:57
im going to wait a bit longer before i plant mine!
Title: Re: Pumpkins
Post by: allaboutliverpool on March 07, 2008, 19:26:28
The year before last I grew the pumpkin pictured in unmanured unprepared soil and just left it, without even bothering to water it.

Last year I prepared the ground with masses of horsemanure, lots of love and got a miserable specimen half as big as the previous year

I think they like sunshine!

http://www.allaboutliverpool.com/allaboutallotments1_homepage
Title: Re: Pumpkins
Post by: gunnerbee on March 07, 2008, 20:41:02
allaboutliverpool yes strange isnt it, i had a rogue seed that came up in the soil on the floor, i suspected it was a pumpkin seed id dropped and it was, it climbed along the floor out the door up the roof and had some great fruit from it!! it was early in the season too!! you can guarentee that if yourd have planted it, it wouldnt have grown!!! ??? ??? ??? ???