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"Bob Hobden" writes:
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| How have you all done with your pumpkins and squashes this year?
| Ours are excellent, the pumpkins have grown well without constant water and
| we have just harvested 43 full sized ripe butternuts from 6 plants. Needless
| to say we have already started giving them away.

One fairly miserable potimarron, though it ripened OK. Two good-sized
Queensland blue, but the one we have eaten was VERY watery. And lots
and lots of little gem - but those are Curcurbita pepo, which does
better in cool conditions than C. maxima.

I am amazed that you have got butternuts (which I think are C. moschata)
to fruit and ripen - you must have had a better year than I have!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.