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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #300 on: July 20, 2010, 11:47 »
COUNT ME IN PLEASE      ALFIE PLOT 162

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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #301 on: July 20, 2010, 14:39 »
Be on the safe side Ice - leave one as a back-up  ;)


Am I right that you are also taking part in the tallest sunflower competition too?
Thanks for that Learner, I was going to remove them all, phew. :nowink:

Tallest sunflower?  No, not me, wouldn't like to sweep the board of prizes. :lol:

I know how you feel.... It is so embarrassing going up time and time again to collect the prizes  :lol:
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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #302 on: July 21, 2010, 20:56 »
I would join in if any of my pumpkins actualy didnt fall off. Grrrrrrrrrr. Which they all seem to do.
Woooooooooooooo

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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #303 on: July 21, 2010, 21:01 »

I know how you feel.... It is so embarrassing going up time and time again to collect the prizes  :lol:
Ah, the halcyon days of school.  :closedeyes:
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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #304 on: July 22, 2010, 04:19 »

I know how you feel.... It is so embarrassing going up time and time again to collect the prizes  :lol:
Ah, the halcyon days of school.  :closedeyes:

My school experience was a bit different…. in the days of streaming:

At Junior school I started off in the B stream but was rapidly promoted to the P stream. The “P”, or so the parents were told, stood for progress of which I evidently made very little!  :blink:  :blush:

It was not until I arrived at the secondary mod that things began to improve when, after a bit of a nasty incident, I decked the school’s biggest bully (more by accident than intention). From then on I was given a wide berth by the school’s rough bunch and actually began to relax, learn and enjoy being there.

A change of gear and some good competition from my best mate got me from the bottom to the top. Thank heavens for the change to Comprehensive School or I would not have had the opportunity to tackle GCSEs and then A levels in the years I had left.  ;)       

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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #305 on: July 22, 2010, 10:13 »
I would join in if any of my pumpkins actualy didnt fall off. Grrrrrrrrrr. Which they all seem to do.
Glad it's not just me then! 
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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #306 on: July 22, 2010, 10:18 »
I can't see me winning a size prize for a pumpkin, its my first go at growing them and I'm a lot further north than most of you, but I have got one fruit so far, about the size of a golfball yesterday when I found it. :)
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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #307 on: July 22, 2010, 10:40 »
I would join in if any of my pumpkins actualy didnt fall off. Grrrrrrrrrr. Which they all seem to do.
Glad it's not just me then! 

I've been hand polinating mine which seems to have helped and then removing the flower before it goes too mushy - no drop offs yet (I do only have 3 fruit so far but they all seem to be getting bigger!). Last year I only got one fruit (as all the others dropped off) and it didn't ripen in time.

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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #308 on: July 22, 2010, 20:12 »
Is there a prize for whose goes furthest across the garden?  We have two golf balls on ours but it's now half way across the lawn and we have to climb over it to get indoors!

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« Reply #309 on: July 25, 2010, 16:41 »
just an update before it gets a prune i promised the wife it wouldnt take over the garden, but its having a good try  :ohmy: i have  two  set now so its game on . hopefully the pictures will upload .






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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #310 on: July 25, 2010, 20:29 »
Good heavens wtog  :blink:

Are they sunflowers in the background against the fence?  Not thinking of entering that competition too, were you  :lol:
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days all attack me at once...

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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #311 on: July 25, 2010, 20:32 »
The progress so far.  That's a 50p on top. :)




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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #312 on: July 25, 2010, 20:40 »
We have loads growing brilliantly now, altho I tried that 3 sisters planting technique (planting beans, corn and pumpkins together) however the pumpkins are now blocking the light to the corn- OH DEAR  :tongue2:

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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #313 on: July 25, 2010, 20:47 »
however the pumpkins are now blocking the light to the corn- OH DEAR  :tongue2:
Better remove them to give the corn a chance. :tongue2:

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Re: pumpkin competition
« Reply #314 on: July 25, 2010, 21:12 »
i didnt know about the sunflower competition untill too late , i was just having some fun with my kids to see whos would grow  the tallest , they are all coming up for 9ft .
thats looking very good ice , im off to give mine a good talking to  :(



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