Pumpkin Competition 2012

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #180 on: September 09, 2012, 22:48 »
well, you did say this
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pumpkin ready for veg show 9th sept...
so it was a fair assumption  ;)

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #181 on: September 09, 2012, 22:59 »
well, you did say this
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pumpkin ready for veg show 9th sept...
so it was a fair assumption  ;)
Plus your website is a bit of a give away. ;)
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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #182 on: September 10, 2012, 07:18 »
well, you did say this
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pumpkin ready for veg show 9th sept...
so it was a fair assumption  ;)
Plus your website is a bit of a give away. ;)

the pumpkin was grown for fun

 i did not enter this compertion to win on this forum just posted some photos of our pumpkin due to no other photos on the site.
the pumpkin has not been entered in any show for cash or prize cards just to raise funds for local community garden group..  i am not after reconition of prizes from your self just hoped someother members have grown a simular pumpkin..  lots of love keep gardening.. 
keep it organic and you will see the difference including taste......

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #183 on: September 24, 2012, 20:27 »
we're out - no pumpkin, not even a golfball ..... Checks packet, hmmm, Atlantic Giant   :lol:   :nowink: 

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #184 on: September 25, 2012, 09:13 »
I tried growing Atlantic Giant last year. The biggest I got was the size of a grapefruit. I think it probably needs to be in a polytunnel to really produce something big.

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #185 on: September 25, 2012, 09:22 »
I've grown reasonable AG's outside.

But not this year.  :(
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #186 on: September 25, 2012, 21:18 »
That gives me hope for next year's heatwave try DD :D. We'd have been ok with even a grapefruit SimonW, since it was a first time effort for fun.  The plant eventually took off but the sequence of male/ female flowers was never in sync. 

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #187 on: September 25, 2012, 21:33 »
It wasn't a winner size wise, but got the "prettiest" last year, (due more to the display around it, I suspect).

I think with a bit more TLC it would have got bigger, but if I remember correctly, the biggest was also grown outside.

Anyway, just to prove you can get something off an AG outside, this was it:


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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #188 on: September 25, 2012, 23:06 »
Mine is the size of a satsuma.

Overall I've had a disappointing year in the garden

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #189 on: September 29, 2012, 20:57 »
Mine

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #190 on: September 29, 2012, 22:58 »
Don't forget to take a pic of the measurement - looking good  :D

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #191 on: October 10, 2012, 08:46 »
Mine are much smaller than I would have like but at least there are some  :lol:

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #192 on: October 10, 2012, 11:32 »
Juan, our neighbour, had lots of butternut squash, about 40, shame they were not mine, I could have entered  :lol:

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #193 on: October 19, 2012, 22:03 »
Had a quick measure  64"x72"
Need a couple of bods to help weigh them ::)

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Re: Pumpkin Competition 2012
« Reply #194 on: October 25, 2012, 14:54 »
Here's my squash harvest for 2012 none of them big enough to be worth measuring though  :(



Don't forget to measure and photo yours by the end of the month  :)






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