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Originally Posted by coxievans  Hi i have pumpkins growing for the first time this year and they are doing great, i have fenceing around them for protection, my wife loves eating pumpkin as she comes from brasil. may be its this fenceing that has worked to keep a barrier from the cold up north where i live. they are really flying, larger and more leaves every day, previous house owners used my site for bonefires, and all my veg is flying, iceberg lettuce ready to eat potatoes flowering, but my pride is my first atempt at these pumpkins. |
Funny you should mention bonfires as the only place I could grow brassicas in my last allotment was where the bonfires had been. My theory is that the bonfires sterilised the soil and burned the clubroot fungus out of existance in this area!
Nowt to do with pumpkins I know, but the soil sterilisation would kill any nasties and up the pottasium content in the soil for the pumpkins also!