More photos and news

The day after the photo of Jenni was taken, it was dug up by the Foxes, I was not happy, so planted some more Atlantic Giants. It could be too late but they seem to be doing OK. Frankie is doing well and this morning showed its first female flowers. If you look at the back you can also just see a male flower.

Jenni was replanted and seems to be growing but I wouldn't be surprised if it dies.

The photo on the right shows the patch, some of the new Atlantic Giants are already planted out and seem to be doing OK. The other smaller Plants are Son of Pumpy and again seem to be growing. Atlantics have yet to be named but this week I have had news of the death of a very dear friend of mine so one will be named "Eddie"after him. Other deaths recently mean that some of the others will be named "Ricky" and "Frobush" after Jonothon Smith whose posts on WoS usually made me smile!

On the left is Invincible which has been thriving in its new home.










And on the right is Timur. This plant has already had a male flower out, no sign of females yet. But there is still time. I really should pick up that fried chicken box.








And here is another Son of Pumpy.
The fence thing was built for the sole reason of letting plants grow up it. This one seemed to have missed the message and is growing the wrong way! The Loofah next to it isn't doing so well, but here is no time left for this so it will have to wait until next year.

Update from the Patch

Summer has shown its face and it has been quite warm for the last few days on and off.

The pumpkin plants have showed signs of life.

Alas some have been lost to fox's and other critters which is really annoying, but I have two plants that are doing well, Frankie and Jenni. George got dug up but just checked it and there is a flower showing, which should be out soon.

Jenni showed her first flower today:

Two new recruits to the patch are Timur and HMS:

This is Timur, a Turks Turban pumpkin.

It is named after a Turkish bloke I know.

And this one is called HMS as it is an Invincible type pumpkin.

Well can you think of a better name?

Both came from Hanwell carnival the other week.

Note that the chicken wire which is used to stop critters digging them up, seems to be working so far.

Also there are some "Seeds of Pumpy" plants which are doing good too, more photos as things progress.

Photos from the patch

This photo shows a photo of the patch after some weeding has been done, the two polythene mini polytunnels cover Frankie at the back and Pumpkina in the Middle. The mound in the bottom right of the photo is where Indy will be going.

Jenni isn't shown in this photo and George is still growing in the house. Hopefully these will soon cover the whole of this area. But it's been a very long wait for warmer weather this year.

Meanwhile back inside my house

Inside the house, there are more seeds germinating, these are the seeds from Pumpy who grew last year. I don't expect much from these but they will be planted anyway.

Also being germinated are two more giant pumpkins, these are called Indy and George and will be planted very soon.

The other plants in this shot are Loofahs and/or seed of Pumpy.

Photos of the pumpkins so far

This Frankie the Pumpkin. He's doing quite well.

And this is Jenni the Pumpkin

This is Pumpkina today, as you can see, it hasn't grown much due to the elongated winter weather we are having.

But today is sunny and warmish so its time to do some more weeding.

The video above is a very short and simple time lapse of a giant pumpkin rearing its shoots for the first time. I had to go out and drill some holes in a wall, so set the camera up and left it running. Needless to say, I didn't drill through a wall and put the drill down on a carpet, only a true cowboy would do that.

Pumpkina has showed her first leaves!

Pumpkina has finally broken the surface and is showing!
Some more are being germinated inside and will be joining this one later.