[tosca100]

The neighbours and OH picked the pumpkins and squash yesterday and stacked them on pallets to ripen. The neighbours planted them before we arrived and we were worried that we would have to use them, but hopefully not. Lots of colours and shapes, and all far too large for two people! Some will go into the cellar in October. With these and all the bottles of stuff, we will not starve.

OH has now started to clear up.....shame I am busy making cheese!

[mumofstig]

I'm really jealous - what a great harvest 

[tosca100]

Oooops....put the wrong photo on!

[mumofstig]

Now that is just rubbing it in   

 

[tosca100]

 

[pdblake]

Hope you're not going to try to cook them all in that little oven

[New shoot]

That is such a great harvest     Jealous as well, but its such a lovely pic I forgive you rubbing it in    

Interested in the cheese making.  Its something I've always wanted to try 

[devonbarmygardener]

You won't starve but you're going to be eating a lot of pumpkin/squash based meals!
Boredom springs to mind!

What a lot of amazing shapes and colours you have there.

[kathrose]

I planted just two seeds from a pumpkin and they have more or less taken over my garden.  I love watching  how fast they grow.  I have a few small ones.  Is it best to just let them get on with growing, I have been watering like crazy as I planted them next to my runner beans so I have had to keep watered.

Thats an amazing lot of pumpkins you have there.

[surbie100]

Are you feeding the whole town??

That is a seriously impressive haul. I have 6 possibly 7.

[mumofstig]

I just love all the weird and wonderful shapes - the ones that are almost rectangular are interesting  I've just never seen any that shape before 

[JayG]

Crikey O'Blimey O'Reilly!     

Wonder how much that lot weigh? (Is it a garden you've got or half of Bulgaria?    )

[tosca100]

I have to say we were worried tey were going to say they were our's, after we were given the dozens of tomatoes, peppers, aubergines and okra. But basically they planted them in about a third of the garden to keep the weeds down...and no doubt because they are so rampant they don't want to waste their space. They use our English neighbour's garden too, so maybe they will plant them there when we take our garden back. We will not plant any as all the neighbours will be trying to give us their surplus, as they did with toms and cucumbers. They only water them to get them going, once they start flowering they don't water however wilted and hot they get. Even brassicas are watered sparingly or they get the dreaded flea beetle.

I have no idea what they are going to do with them all. They have told us we will be putting some in our cellar,  :ohmy:but they are only two, as are we, with one daughter and a couple of other family. They use them mostly for sweet dishes, they don't like it made into soup as it is too sweet (though they seem to have exceptionally sweet tooth!)

It looks as if I will be scouring the forum for recipes.

[Springlands]

Wow - that is some crop of pumpkins. Could you sell some either at your gate or at a local market. Just a thought. 

[Beetroot Queen]

Oh my thats a harvest and a half, forget death by chocolate, you'll need a death by squash cake.

Lovely shapes though, chutney anyone.