pumpkin leaves - going quite yellow

Is it normal for pumpkin leaves to go quite yellow? Mine have gone from mottled, to almost completely yellow....it's just a few leaves on a newish plant, but I wanted to check all the same

Cheers v much

 

I'm having the same problem with my squashes and courgettes. Looked in my gargening bible and couldn't decide whether it was nitrogen deficiency or phosphate deficiency. Decided to give them a dressing of fish blood and bonemeal as they were planted above a layer of well rotted manure. If they don't change I'll give them something else but I don't know what yet? :(

 

If its just the older leaves I wouldn't bother too much, if on the other hand its newer ones you could have a problem.

 

Well my plants don't seem to be developing any more yellow leaves. They are now growing vigourously so I assume the roots have reached the manure at the bottom of their pots. A couple of days after the bonemeal dressing I gave them a dose of liquid organic feed so I seem to have covered all areas.

 

over watetring is sometimes shown by yellowing foilage

 

Mine are now getting rather mildewey but the pumpkins seem to be OK

 

Clear skies - I don't worry about the mildew at this time of the year - it seems to be part of the dying back process. I start cutting a lot of the foliage away from the fruit to let in more light and begin to let the pumpkins cure while still on the vine. Planning on cutting out some of the larger ones later today - I set them out on the brick wall to catch the last of the summer sun/heat - but also to just gloat over how many there are!

It has been a great pumpkin year - I'm guessing that 2006 is going to be vintage eating! We've tried a lot of different varieties over the years - but I have never found anything that beats Crown Prince for flavour and keeping! Dead chuffed when ol' Monty Don trialled them last year - hope there are a lot more converts to the joys of eating pumpkin now.

Sorry about going on - this is a real pet subject with me. I think I could set up a whole forum on pumpkins - except I would probably be a rather lonely ol' gardener on it.

Rumple

 

Yes please Rumple.I am growing "Hundredweight" for our local pumpkin competition,and they are being judged in October.
Any advice would be gratefully recieved

Kandy