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.

Did it take?

Yesterday, I pulled off the male flower and tried to fertilize the one female flower on Frankie.

If it worked we shall have to wait and see.

The baby pumpkin behind the flower on Atlantics seems to be somewhat bigger on this strain (which is what you'd expect really!) but is also yellower...

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.