I have a pumpkin growing tryphid-like in my greenhouse. It is going to
take the whole place over. What can I do?? Can I chop the end off to
stop it growing any further or will this kill the whole beast??
Jonny

You can cut the ends off. You can also remove the blossoms, wash them and
put them into soup/stew.

Dwayne

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I have a pumpkin growing tryphid-like in my greenhouse. It is going to
take the whole place over. What can I do?? Can I chop the end off to
stop it growing any further or will this kill the whole beast??
Jonny

Jon wrote:

I have a pumpkin growing tryphid-like in my greenhouse. It is going to
take the whole place over. What can I do?? Can I chop the end off to
stop it growing any further or will this kill the whole beast??
Jonny


Clip it at will. It will send out shoots.. Young pumpkin leaves are
used as a vegetable in Africa (See Dorinda Hafner's 'A taste of Africa'
if you can get it). Flowers can be picked, stuffed, battered etc.

Why is the pumkin in a greenhouse? Are you in the Northern Wilds of
Scotland?

I have a pumpkin growing tryphid-like in my greenhouse. It is going to
take the whole place over. What can I do?? Can I chop the end off to
stop it growing any further or will this kill the whole beast??

I hope your greenhouse is BIG. My pumpkins have been known to put on 30
feet of stem growth in a season and that's outside! And if you get any
decent sized fruit they could fill the rest of teh greenhouse. Is it too
late to transplant (not that I have any idea whether such an exercise is
feasible)?