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Pumpkins and Squashs
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. Last year the few we got rotted after a month or so in storage because they didn't ripen properly. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... How have you all done with your pumpkins and squashes this year? Didn't grow any and my cucumbers died :-( Ours are excellent, the pumpkins have grown well without constant water and we have just harvested 43 full sized ripe butternuts from 6 plants. Show off! Needless to say we have already started giving them away. I'll take some off yer 'ands, guv ... Last year the few we got rotted after a month or so in storage because they didn't ripen properly. Don't send rotten ones! Mary |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
... How have you all done with your pumpkins and squashes this year? Not too well. All but one of my butternut squashes were eaten by something (slugs probably) and the one remaining one is a bit slow growing. The plant doesn't look too sharp either. |
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On Sep 29, 5:19*pm, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
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. Last year the few we got rotted after a month or so in storage because they didn't ripen properly. -- Regards Bob Hobden They sound great!!! It is a really nice thing to be able to store them up if they ripen well. As I said before, we had 2 plants of Ushiki Kuri that did really well (6 butternut squash sized pumpkins from each; these look like small Halloween style pumpkins; each enough to feed 5-6 roasted) but only because I got them in the ground and established back in early May before the weather went dire. 4 plants of 2 other varieties were established too late (wet/windy weather just made them sulk) and produced one small pumpkin between them. We had 2 courgettes but they sulked and did not produce much. We also had one Cucumber (Telegraph improved) and it was brilliant in a greenhouse (6 or so huge cucumbers over 2 months). Overall it was a miserable summer here in Dublin but many of our plants loved it. We have a pear tree that is almost falling over with pears. Des |
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:27:28 -0700 (PDT), Des Higgins
wrote and included this (or some of this): We also had one Cucumber (Telegraph improved) and it was brilliant in a greenhouse (6 or so huge cucumbers over 2 months). Overall it was a miserable summer here in Dublin but many of our plants loved it. We have a pear tree that is almost falling over with pears. If I didn't get at least 35 full-grown cucumbers from one of my greenhouse cucumbers I'd be well disappointed. -- ®óñ© © ²°¹°-°² |
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"®óñ© © ²°¹°-°²" wrote in message ... On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:27:28 -0700 (PDT), Des Higgins wrote and included this (or some of this): We also had one Cucumber (Telegraph improved) and it was brilliant in a greenhouse (6 or so huge cucumbers over 2 months). Overall it was a miserable summer here in Dublin but many of our plants loved it. We have a pear tree that is almost falling over with pears. If I didn't get at least 35 full-grown cucumbers from one of my greenhouse cucumbers I'd be well disappointed. Normally my cucs do very well, this is the first year I haven't had any :-( Mary |
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In article , "Bob Hobden" writes: | | 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. |
Pumpkins and Squashs
"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... 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. Last year the few we got rotted after a month or so in storage because they didn't ripen properly. It has been too wet here in N. Wilts to be really good this year, but we had a small crop of about 45 lbs. of different varieties. Our "Prince" (blue skin) didn't do well, unlike in previous years when it was our main crop, we only had a couple of them; but we have had several quite large pink banana squashes, about 1-1/2 feet long. The rest are mostly Kuri and Turk's turbans. Last year's winter squashes lasted until only a month or so ago. Pumpkins are not such good keepers. We visited the RHS Three Counties Show (or whatever it's called) in Malvern yesterday, to see the splendid vegetables. As we entered the building the first things we saw were two giant pumpkins/squashes, the largest being something like 1,350 lbs. And a couple of the carrots had roots going for about 8 feet. Amazing. someone |
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On 30/9/08 08:30, in article ,
"AriesVal" wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:20:24 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 29/9/08 17:19, in article , "Bob Hobden" wrote: 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. Last year the few we got rotted after a month or so in storage because they didn't ripen properly. Pumpkins on the nursery compost heap have done so well that roasted pumpkin and pepper soup are a big tea room hit! what type of pumpkin is that Sacha No idea, Val. Some of the nursery staff grew them as a friendly competition! I'll find out if any of them remember what they grew! Mind you, it's a compost heap that just about needs its own post code! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon (new website online) |
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In article , Sacha writes: | | No idea, Val. Some of the nursery staff grew them as a friendly | competition! I'll find out if any of them remember what they grew! Mind | you, it's a compost heap that just about needs its own post code! Precisely the place to plant pumpkins in to grow them to coach size! Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 30/9/08 09:39, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote: In article , Sacha writes: | | No idea, Val. Some of the nursery staff grew them as a friendly | competition! I'll find out if any of them remember what they grew! Mind | you, it's a compost heap that just about needs its own post code! Precisely the place to plant pumpkins in to grow them to coach size! Regards, Nick Maclaren. We'll pass on the mice, though, thanks! Yes, they must have been very happy on that heap, large, warm and sunny - when there was any sun. I counted about a dozen, I think so will have to check with them just what they cropped. The type used was Sutton's 'Hundredweight', for those who wanted to know, BTW. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon (new website online) |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote after "Bob Hobden" wrote | | 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! The variety was "Sprinter" which is supposed to be good for growing in the UK. We have grown various squashes in the past but don't bother now as I found I didn't like them cooked in any shape or form. We both love Butternuts (and Marrows) though. The pumpkins we do grow (Atlantic Giant) are simply for a laugh and for Halloween, they then go on the compost heap. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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