[ruffmesiter_69]

Hi guys / girls,

Just wondering how your pumpkins and squashes are coping with all this wet weather. We are just seeing the first true fruits forming and beginning to swell.



How are yours doing? bigger? smaller? not planted yet? harvesting squashes?

We are also worried that the broad beans which are close to them have have chocolate spot and was wondering if this can affcted pumpkins

Also from down the plot this week, a bumper harvest of broad beans, potatoes, rhubarb, gooseberries, and raspberries. However with this rain comes the dreaded weeds and the possibility of blight.

Regards
Lottieblogs

[jacnal]

Probably drowned  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

No point even going to the allotment after work. It's been raining cats and dogs - sad for a new gardener, I tell ya! Is it really summer time, or did I blink into autumn? After the past hour's down pour, I think even my strong, thriving pumpkin is suffering  

[GrannieAnnie]

My first try at a pumpkin, and with nowhere else to put it, I've planted it in between my swetcorn, and I've got a few little pumpkins just beginning to form, but they are not as big as yours Ruffy!!!!  But as I made a big mound of old compost, it is at the moment well off the waterlogged ground!

[Aidy]

Pumpkin is surving and growing slowly at the mo, could do with some drier weather, courgettes are going bannanas, had about 8 so far and went down tonight and 4 will be ready in next couple of days.

[jennyb]

My first try at a pumpkin, and with nowhere else to put it, ...... and I've got a few little pumpkins just beginning to form,

i got very over excited when i noticed mine had fruit growing on them - as its my first time trying them too!  i think they are about the same size - i just don't want to count my chickens - just incase they go mouldy with the damp weather....

[ruffmesiter_69]

yeah its suprising they have fruited in this weather, need some sun now for them to thrive

[Little Miss Muffet]

my squash has been murdered by the slugs :twisted:  :cry:
the pumkin however is doing great and has just started forn=ming a pumpkin

[wellingtons]

... picked a load last night, with several more ready by the weekend I hope.

The pumpkins I planted earlier on are both doing really well and I have one fruit on the Jack of All Trades about the size of a grapefruit.  

But the green squash and butternut squash I planted a couple of weeks ago are just not taking off.  They're OK, decent sized baby plants, but they haven't shot ahead like they should have done, and would have done even last year.

Oh well, there's still time.  And at least I've not got to rush up and down the plot with the watering can!

[ness]

Our pumpkins have gone mad.  We've got 3 halloween sort and they have literally over taken their patch (which they are sharing with courgettes, a summer squash and sweetcorn).  They are having little pumpkins every where - should I limit them to a couple a plant?
It nice to have a success as I have just had to pull up my swedes (soft rot) cut down my tatties (blight) and tomatoes (blight)  :cry: .  

Still I'll be ok for enormous pumpkins  :roll: .

[ruffmesiter_69]

been down tonight, small fruits but nothing swelling yet, please some sun please