Harvest time!

Couldn't wait any longer and decided to harvest the one and only Turks Turban, Timur. He weighs in at just over a Kilo. Don't know if thats big, small or just about right. Will let you know how it tastes!

Autumn is coming!

Here is a picture of the patch as of yesterday.

You can see some ornage showing through, but mainly its green.

the plants are showing signs of age and the fruit is changing colour.

A hint of orange just showing through.

I reckon about a week and at least 3 should be ready.

The film above shows a female pumpkin flower being hand pollunated.

Its a jungle in Pumpkin City!

What growth in just 2 weeks!


The last two weeks I have been pollinating several flowers per day, usually about three.


The growth on some of the plants has been tremendous!

Some have fruit and these can be seen below.

The biggest dissapointment has been the Atlantic Giants. A couple of fruits have set, but were either eaten or dropped off, some of the pants have been dug up and time is running out for them.

Nearly all of the "Seeds of Pumpy" plants have fruit, some bigger than others and some are still flowering. Bear in mind these are seds that were produced from the seed of a pumpkin purchased from a supermarket nearly a decade ago. Most have several fruits on them and they are BIG plants!

This one has two fruits growing.

Compare this photo with some earlier ones to see just how big these plants are getting.

Patch update!

Its Pumpkin City out there!

Some of te plants are doing really well, som e not so but its still 12 weeks until the end of October.

The Pumpkin that was on Frankie, fell off, but another was pollinated and can be seen under the plastic in this photograph.

Some photos of teh other fruits that have already set will follow.

Did it take? part 2

No photo update today, but the little pumpkin on Frankie is 49.11mm diameter, I simply don't know if it will fall off or if it will continue to grow. Watch this space for updates!

Seed of Pumpy

My Avatar is of the original Pumpy and growing him is what got me into all this.

His seeds were saved and have been planted around the patch, a lot were dug up by those Fox gits, but they didn't get all of them, Here are some photos of Pumpy's Sons:

This is actually several plants, I had the seeds germinating in a butter dish and they got a bit smelly towards the end so what was left was planted and here is the result.