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so after my pretty poor showing of 1st earlies - I went up lottie to water the lovely pumkins and the like - I also wanted to lay straw under the baby pumpkins....gently lifted one baby and SNAP nooooooooo *sobs
*see piskie run back to lottie with superglue

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can you not use a plaster? there was another post where someone did that ..i think with potatoes?? or something

Lynda xx

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sometimes i do talk complete and utter rubbish ...... just ignore me if i do ........i'll go away eventually

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Never mind sweets, they're like buses - there'll be another one along soon.

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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

It probably hadn't been pollinated and would have fallen off anyway!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Just hope that doesn't happen to me, i only have one on the go and he's gettin big

I mended a half-snapped tomato plant with a plaster only today.
Hope it works, I snapped the top foot off when I was trying to move the pot to the other end of the greenhouse

(Anyone know whether you just leave it on, or will this restrict the growth and if I take it off, how do I know when the plant has healed?!)

Piskie :cries for pumpkin:
we got flowers but no sign of an actual pumpkin yet. (Are pumpkin flowers male / female like courgettes and things? or??)

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Warning: I have a dangerous tendency to act like I know what I'm talking about.

my pumpkins haven't even germinated and i only need one big enough to take a tea light candle, for sons g/f on halloween

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I don't know much about sex - it had a flower, doesn't that mean that it erm well you know *covers Snowdrops eyes

now what are you trying to say here Demeter I do know that you can dip them (the flowers, not the pumpkins) into tempura batter and they are yum

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First few of my pumpkins fell off but was no surprise as I have not seen a male flower yet.

Ian

Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your pumpkins Piskie??

mine are yet to develop anything to fall off!
re plasters?is this a wind up(hate looking gullible!)

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the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

my mother didn't tell me nuffink except that my Sis came from a gooseberry bush - which is why I garden so much ...... I can't tell you how damaged I am

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awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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Stacey xXx

Everything is changing - Because of this Happy Bunny trundles up the garden everyday to see what has changed.

think April 1st hun and you'll be fine. Nothing wrong with gullible - we all are to some degree or other about something or other

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Our pumpkin last year grew one measly fruit, which fell off when we were in the states. So, I left a round courgette to get really big and was going to paint it orange. Can't quite remember what happened but that was the plan. It made the neighbours laugh when I told them why I was growing super huge round courgette.

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Andrea :wavehello

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moon trial underway with onions, lettuce, tomatoes and calabrese.

Had a look at the pumpkin this morning and took off the first few fruits just in case they had not set. The plants are now about ten foot long and there are male and female flowers open so should now get a good set. Am trying to get a bigger one this year so will only grow 2 per plant. Best I got last year was a 30 lb which by pumpkin standards was pretty miserable.

Ian

Always prefer the term "trusting"!makes you sound a little less thick!!LOL
As for april 1st~that'd be the day i lock myself in a room with no tv/papers or any communication from the outside world till it's all over!

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the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

yes but how did I get under the Gooseberry bush in the first place that's what I'd like to know

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dunno Sis, I wasn't there

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I found my one gooseberry under our gooseberry bush last week...

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Andrea :wavehello

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...logs/zazen999/

moon trial underway with onions, lettuce, tomatoes and calabrese.

you mean it isn't true ????????????????????? flippin heck i believed it ...... you mean people on here tell porkies

anyway good news they have been out in the sun today, and 2 of the cases of the seeds have split, and peeped their heads out of the compost ........ we may have a halloween pumpkin yet

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wot no Sister??! oh nooo - do you want to borrow my counsellor?

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