"Martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:17:05 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill
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On Oct 20, 1:51 pm, "Bertie Doe" wrote:
"Emery Davis" wrote in ...

On 10/20/2011 12:11 PM, wrote:





I've just been thinking of how the frost will be improving my sprouts,
and
realised I've left the pumpkins out in the cold.

Will it be impossible to store them now if they're frost damaged?

I don't think frost damages pumpkins. In fact, wasn't there an old
country western song?

Frost on the puuumpkin,
Mud on the plough.
I'm just a buuumpkin,
She's just a cow...

OK, I made up the last 2 lines.

I grew 4 pumpkin plants this year and limited each plants to one fruit.
The
3 that have turned a nice yellow have been lifted, but all 4 are quite
small, probably 1/3rd the weight of the parent. These were seed saved
from a
monster purchased from Morrisons last October. Puzzling as the soil is
good
and they were fed 3 times on Growmore.- Hide quoted text -

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The trade reports this year say that pumpkins are smaller than normmal
due to the weather.
Dont wory, it's not just you.

The BBC quoted the RHS as saying that they were half the normal size

Agh that's a relief, I was beginning to think maybe the original was an F1.
They're not big enough for Halloween masks (huzzah!!) so my wife is going to
make pumpkin pie (for the first time).
It may have been a bad year for pumpkins, but it's been a great one for
apples. Next-door has given me 30 lbs each of dessert and Bramleys.
Lunchtime I was in my local Homebrew getting some beer bottles and caps and
the owner has completely sold out of cider presses and fermentation bins. I
bought one of those hand presses at a car boot. It'll be powerful enough for
rhubarb but NOT apples.