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    Yippeeee!!!! Pumpkin!!!!!

    At last, from one of my two prolific pumpkin plants, one pumpkin has 'set'!! And is growing beautifully...........

    Don't know if you can see how big it is from photo - but it's about the size of a lawn-green bowling ball ..........!
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    Looking good Susie...well done!
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      Thank you Jay - I'm rather chuffed, 'cos every fruit that has appeared so far (lots) has only grown the size of a golf ball, then turned brown at the end, gone squishy and fell off in my hands ....!
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      • #4
        That looks fab!!

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        • #5
          Looking good Suzie

          Are you going let more than one develop or keep it to one for a big pumpkin?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
            Looking good Suzie

            Are you going let more than one develop or keep it to one for a big pumpkin?
            I'm thinking I'm going to try for more than one Jay-ell ~ there's another one getting bigger now, too, so I'll see how they go.....
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            • #7
              Plenty of food and water now Suzie

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                Well done, that looks awesome I know how you feel because lots of my squash went the same way - brown and squishy if not eaten by slugs and possibly rodents running around the garden.

                It's easy to keep blaming slugs for things but we recently found my bird seed in the garage had a big hole in the plastic where something had chewed through and eaten the seed - unless slugs have evolved with teeth, it wasn't them ha ha
                LOVE growing food to eat in my little town back garden. Winter update: currently growing overwintering onions, carrots, lettuce, chard, salad leaves, kale, cabbage, radish, beetroot, garlic, broccoli raab, some herbs.

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                • #9
                  It might be Marie

                  Britain is home to around 30 species of slug. A slug can stretch out to 20 times its normal length, enabling it to squeeze through the smallest of openings. A slug has approximately 27,000 teeth – that's more teeth than a shark. Like sharks, slugs routinely lose and replace their teeth.
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                    It may be a simple case of non-pollination.
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                      Originally posted by Greenleaves View Post
                      Plenty of food and water now Suzie
                      GL, what do you recommend for feed, and how often, please.........?
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                      • #12
                        I use comfrey tea or tom fertiliser feed weekly and water 3 times weekly

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                          Originally posted by Greenleaves View Post
                          I use comfrey tea or tom fertiliser feed weekly and water 3 times weekly
                          I shall get onto it forthwith ......!
                          (I have tomato feed, some home-made nettle tea, if that's any good .....? And I've also got some shop bought seaweed stuff ..... )
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                          • #14
                            Nettle tea is more nitrogen for leaves - I'd go with the tomato feed.

                            New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle

                            �I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
                            ― Thomas A. Edison

                            �Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
                            ― Thomas A. Edison

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                            • #15
                              I had a small raised bed spare and had a pumpkin, squash and a couple of marrows so decided to plant them.
                              Problems with Mares Tail so covered with cheap ground cover from Wilko, worked a treat.
                              However the plants looked a bit sorry for themselves, a bit battered by cold winds.
                              So I took the tops off my plastic frames and cobbled together a bit of a wind break.

                              Went on holiday for a week.

                              When I got back they had gone bonkers.
                              The bed is such a chaos of shoots I darn't delve into it for fear of been sucked in.
                              I have seen reports on the "Great Pumpkin" !
                              I think I spotted some pumpkins from a safe distance.

                              Jimmy
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