This year's PUMPKIN competition

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• Guest 698

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  24 May 2012     20:19174438
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  Parallax, Ray!
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 703

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  24 May 2012     20:24174440
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  Language, Peter!
• Guest 698

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  24 May 2012     21:43174465
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  Possible foreshortening....?
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 703

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  25 May 2012     10:53174537
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  Rumbled!
  
  

  
• Guest 698

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  11 July 2012     11:21182336
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  Progress report.
  
  

  

  
  
  Three little fruits, all about the size of a billiard ball. Slugs have had a field day but they have been beaten now.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 700

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  11 July 2012     15:58182367
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  I think they have been slow to get going with the changeable weather. Here is mine, main branch now about 6 ft long and several small pumpkins on (the first one eaten by slug), I will wait a while to see which pumpkin seems to be growing the fastest and take the others off in due course. Must keep feeding it.
  
  

  

  

  
  
  How is Ray's pumpkin coming on ?
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• Guest 716

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  15 July 2012     17:09182992
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  Kath ...help...we have a galloping pumpkin which appears to be replanting as it travels
  
  when do we cut bits off etc ?and when should we feed it ?...thanks.
• Guest 700

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  15 July 2012     21:38183040
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  Reg = if it is 'replanting as it travels' that is GOOD ! If the trailing stems root themselves down, they will then all feed the 'chosen' pumpkin more than just one root !
  
  Feed when you water (each time?) Don't cut anything off yet, not for quite a while.
  
  When you have several pumpkins forming, you are supposed to "measure each one daily and chose the one which is growing at the fastest rate !!"
  
  Only then do you cut off any new pumpkins which appear, so that all the feed goes into one. Don't cut off the branches yet unless they are in the way of something important.
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• Guest 716

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  15 July 2012     21:48183044
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  Thanks Kath....feed it with what and how often ?.
• Guest 710

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  16 July 2012     00:09183053
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  http://www.giantpumpkins.com/
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 700

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  16 July 2012     08:33183068
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  I see they recommend seaweed fertiliser, I use this ie. 'Maxicrop' which is excellent.
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• Guest 703

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  16 July 2012     09:00183074
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  Mine is being fed 'au naturel' with comfrey water, the neighbours were complaining about farmers spreading dung not realising it was me.
• Guest 700

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  16 July 2012     14:07183099
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  Oh dear!!
  
  Comfrey water is excellent Ray !!
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• Guest 698

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  16 July 2012     16:44183121
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  I'm told by a friend that recycled Guinness does it no harm.
  
  My vine is now ten feet from end to end and growing at the rate of 4 inches a day. We have nicknamed it the Triffid.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 700

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  16 July 2012     18:05183132
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  Wow !
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• Guest 698

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  21 July 2012     17:12183938
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  We have now had to coax it into going in a different direction as it was threatening to climb the wall of the house.
  
  

  

  
  
  Now 13 feet from end to end.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• howard mcsweeney1

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  21 July 2012     17:21183943
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  when is the actual competition?
• Guest 698

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  21 July 2012     17:22183945
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  October 27.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 700

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  21 July 2012     19:53184008
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  Thank goodness we have plenty of time! My pumpkin is enjoying the sunshine today and the damp soil and feed. Lots of new flowers.
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• Brian Dixon

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  21 July 2012     20:32184014
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  cor peters looks like a triffed.

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