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from Des Higgins contains these words:

This is my third year growing punpkins. Each year some plants do
great and some just never get going.
This year, 2 plants that I started early and got into the ground
before the weather went terrible in May, thrived. I got 6 pumpkins
each from them (less than half the diameter of a football each but
enough each to feed 5 or 6 roasted). 4 plants that I started a little
later and that were doing really well in greenhouse, were planted out
after the weather went bad and they never got going (1 small pumpkin
from 4 plants). Can any experts please describe how they do their
pumpkins (when do you germinate; plant out and how do you treat
them). I am seriously considering a small mobile polytunnel next year
or cloche; would this work?

I put pumpkins, marrows, squashes out in mid June - not because this is
a particularly good time, but because I rarely get round to preparing a
large enough bed.

I've got marrows oozing out of my ears ATM.

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Rusty
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