I've just bought 3 varieties of pumpkin seed for next year and it has just dawned on me that I am pumpkin obsessed! I have never grown them before this year and this year I am only growing Small Sugar but I have always loved to see them grow and there is something so unbeatably Autumnal about them (my favourite season). They are the first plants I check on each time we visit the allotment and when they developed powdery mildew I nearly wept! As for those neighbours who keep telling me that they look more like melons than pumpkins.....
So next year hubby had better resign himself to the fact that our allotment may just be one big pumpkin patch!
Do you have an obsession about one veg in particular?
Winter squash like you and I am currently growing:
Bush Buttercup
Baby Blue Hubbard
Uchiki Kuri
Marina di Chioggia
Squashkin
Triamble
Butternut Hawk
Crown Prince
Potimarron
and a couple of others I can'r remember at the moment.
Also love Climbing and Pole beans - so growing a few of these as well, I particularly like the ones for drying, Good Mother stallard, Hutterite soup, Jacobs cattle, Hendersons Black Valentine Cranberry red, etc.
The pole beans don't take up as much space as the squash - but they don't have so much personality ( ::) ) until later in the season. ;D
Yup!!
I am now a squashaholic :-X I check them everyday ~feed them~ touch them.....Once Ive harvested them I feel the need to display them indoors :-X ooh and I nearly forgot.... last year I took photos of them at different stages of growth :-X
I feel the same way about chillies at the moment but I have this one under control ..hehehehehe!!
Duke
I'm really a tomatoaholic but have over twelve Winter Squash... :)
Quote from: skyblu on July 21, 2009, 12:25:43
I've just bought 3 varieties of pumpkin seed for next year
and it's only July, just think how many you will have to try by Spring next year ;) ;D
I know what you mean, I've realised I check mine before everything else. See how far they have grown in a day, if there are any new pumpkins emerging.
And have also been taking photos .........
I have 12 varieties and they are on a mission to take over the plot
a squashaholic in the making 8)
1066
You had better meet Manuel, he planted one pumpkin in my compost box and I have been given strict instructions to give it up to 4 watering cans of water a day (even it is raining), and feed it at least twice a week, apparently Growmore is no good, but tomato feed is OK. I have just been given lessons on taking something out of the flower bit and a talk on male and female flowers, whatever. (Don't even like pumpkins that much, suppose I can make soup). Think I will stick with my runner beans and the 'dreaded courgettes', just managed to offload some courgettes and beans to next door neighbour, can't face another freezing session. Manuel has hidden his pumpkin, in case it gets stolen, it is better not to say the dreaded word (pumpkin) to him or else it is at least an hour about pumpkins. Hope he hasn't got internet connection or I will be in real trouble. He is very nice, apart from his Pumpkin fixation.
I'm a courgette freak. But this year having the allotment for the first time have now got the pumpkin bug as well. They are on a mission to take over the entire allotment. Paths - what paths.? They are almost all filled up with vast inverted umbrellas.
I have two huge blue hubbard squashes already. And the lead growing tip is already 30 yards from the roots. Potatoes are disappearing fast. The people on the next allotment are getting ready to fend them off.
Loads of turks turbans though just read they do not produce much flesh but produce huge seeds, luckily I like toasted pumpkin seeds.
Lady Godiva is a good variety for eating seed...
Just been and cut several round courgettes, before they get ideas above their station... ;D