2014 The GC Pumpkin growing and carving challenge

Grow one for us Hullians please @Lolimac

 

You not taking part this year nfrost ? You had a good one last year

 

@will do Nick

 

Not had chance this year with us possibly moving house and our neighbour putting a 7 foot fence up. I doubt I'll be able to grow much in the garden this year.

 

I'm relying on seeds from this pumpkin to produce something decent this year, but I've got a couple of backups

 

I am growing pumpkins by happenstance. I took a couple home from a Church Halloween display - for my chickens. (They like it OK, the seeds especially) one of them went rotten so I put it on my worm farm and hundreds of plants sprouted.

So I moved a couple to my raised planter that has a grape growing and they are charging forward. Tiny pumpkins behind massive flowers. I will make pumpkin pie if they survive.

 

Seeds sown.....Just a bit more preparation for my pumpkin 'bed' to do

 

A photo update of where my pumpkins are

 

Wow Richard

Here's mine

 

Mine are the same loli,think i sown them a week ago,no show yet

 

Well stop laughing at mine then

 

I ran down to pot shed to check mine when i seen the post,id forgot about them,got that much sown and germinating heads in a tis
How long do they take to germinated?i got plants from catztails last yr

 

I that a Star Trek race?

 

HOW DARE YOU!

 

Blossom end rot!

The little pumpkins are yellowing, and getting black at the end and dying. I crushed up 4 anti acids (CaCo4) along with the shells of a dozen eggs and made a tea to try to load them with calcium. I wish I had a soil ph tester but think it would be about 6.5 if it is similar to the other beds I have made up.

Any advice?