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    Lack of pumpkins...dud seed or conditions?

    Pumpkins are usually one of our greatest successes,keeping us well stocked with curry/soup til early spring...however this year I'll be lucky to get enough to last us til Christmas!
    A lot of the plants haven't even fruited...looking at the mass of flowers,they're all male with not a female in sight!
    We've done nothing different this year to previous years,wondering if it could be down to the quality of the seeds???Other than lack of female flowers though,they look like healthy plants.
    Our Crown Prince didn't even germinate.

    We have got two Butternut squash,planted on the same patch but bought from elsewhere,that are really flourishing.
    Any ideas?
    the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

    Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx
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    It could be the appalling weather. We didn't grow pumpkins until last year because I wasn't keen, but then a friend asked me to grow her some Pottimarron and I thought, well OK, they can live under the sweetcorn so won't take up any real space. I kept the largest for Grandson's Hallowe'en lantern and the smallest because I do like to at least try everything I grow, and they were so delicious I bought Grandson a pumpkin from the greengrocer's and ate his too. This year I put in many more and I've probably only the same number of fruits as I had last year with just three plants. The butternuts are doing nothing, as you say, all male flowers with no sign of even a single female. Courgettes aren't doing much either, I only put two in, one has developed yellow leaves and one has had mildew for at least a month, they are producing, but nothing like at the rate I'd expect.
    Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.

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    • #3
      My Summer squash are doing great...courgettes,bush scallop squash & Little gems.
      I'd say if anything the weather has been better this year than the last two?(at least here...sorry if Yorkshire has been more pants?
      Such a shame.
      Sorry yours don't seem to be doing well either,looking on the pumpkin thread it looks like others are doing OK.
      Want to join me with a slab of Chocolate cake to drown our sorrows?x
      the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

      Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

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      • #4
        Same down here for me - one little pumkin fruit set and then dropped off, first time I've grown them. Courgettes aren't brilliant either, last year I had a job to keep up with eating them all so only planted a couple and now we've only had about 3 and there don't seem to be many flowers coming at all

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          Mmm, Chocolate cake........

          We're currently gardening on two sites, the new one has the chickens and the old one has most of the veg, I popped the pumpkins on the new one though so I'm blaming that, our old plot is high and exposed, but the new one even more so and I've had more than 20 years on the old one so know all its quirks. I've also planted lots of soft fruit on it over the years to act as windbreaks and it's pretty much perfect for me. I'm dreading next year when the old one is given up and the new one has to grow everything, but I suppose it will put a bit of a challenge back into gardening. I only took this new plot because I wanted the chickens and I suppose I'll have plenty of free fertilizer from the chooks to help things along.
          Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.

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