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  Mark -
  
  I looked on an American website - they said you have to allow 400-sq. feet for one plant !! Let all the shoots grow and creep all over - they will all root into the soil and feed one pumpkin !
  Nevertheless, it manages with about 3-ft x 3-ft !
  
  Well dug soil, well rotted manure, and it has two plastic bottles sunk into ground so that water gets straight to roots. Watering every day is important.
  
  
  I think what is important - is some raw fish trimmings (heads etc) - I got a load from the Deal fishmonger - to put in the planting hole, and that does seem to work well.
  It just takes off.
  
  Once a good small pumpkin is growing take off all the new pumpkins which appear and all the food goes into one - that's the theory anyway. This one is grown from seed from the one I grew last year.
  
  Yes - you never know what strange practices they have in the 'north' for growing giant veges !! 'Recycled' beer perhaps ??
  
  Saboteurs - it's well hidden !!

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