[pumpkingrower31]

Hello again

Im pleased to say the growing season is slowly coming up on us. I'm sort of looking forward to starting again this year, and a little worried at the same time at how the summer is going to turn out  :blink: Though that is something any can not predict, im just hoping its good enough to grow some pumpkins, which i might start a little earlier this year but we'll see. Anyway Happy Growing everyone

[richy]

Im looking forward to it too, kid in a sweet shop springs to mind, i can predict the weather for you all, we are going to have a baker of a summer happy growing to you to.

[pumpkingrower31]

Im looking forward to it too, kid in a sweet shop springs to mind, i can predict the weather for you all, we are going to have a baker of a summer happy growing to you to.

I hope so i want to get those beers and barbecues this year i missed them last year  

[compostqueen]

I grow squashes etc and always manage to get a crop. If you grow a mixture of varieties then you will get something for sure 

[bravemurphy]

i had some really good pumpkins this year (hundredweight) i planted them through black polythene, I dont know wether it was the heat in the soil cos of the polythene but they went mad.
Me and my son had to use a wheelbarrow for most of them come harvest time 

Gona do the same this year but we going to plant more varieties.

[angelavdavis]

i had some really good pumpkins this year (hundredweight) i planted them through black polythene, I dont know wether it was the heat in the soil cos of the polythene but they went mad.
Me and my son had to use a wheelbarrow for most of them come harvest time 

Gona do the same this year but we going to plant more varieties.

Black polythene is a good idea, you see this in use in France for charente melons where my inlaws live.  I passed this tip onto a fellow plotholder who had moved a compost heap and found it to be fertile but weed choked, so she covered with a few pierced compost bags, black outwards and planted some winter squash through the bags, it worked really well.  Helped kill off the weeds, but kept the squash nice and cosy so it produced well.