I’m not quite sure, what happened to trying to grow giant pumpkins this year, looks like I’ve grown the world’s smallest pumpkins!

World’s Smallest Pumpkins!
Not very successful, better luck next year, and I’ll start earlier in the year.
I’ve had to “fettle” with one of the seedlings carefully because it’s leaves were stuck in the tissue paper.
I’ve moved the seedlings into to the greenhouse this morning, because the glass porch gets too hot (45 degrees C) and burns the seedlings.
The greenhouse is also more humid, so better for the emergence of the first leaves.
I normally try and grow two pumpkins to carve on Halloween. But this year I’ve challenged myself to see if I can grow a Giant Pumpkin!
The seeds were obtained from a Championship pumpkin in the UK (Douglas Smith – 217kg)
It has taken me four weeks to get the giant pumpkin seeds to germinate… and after trying with 7 seeds, I’ve managed to get two to germinate!
After transplanting into compost, (the germination method is a secret!) here are photos of Day 1 and Day 2.
I’ve been catching up on planting out, tomatoes, chilli peppers (sweet and hot) in the greenhouse, this year has been so warm I’m weeks ahead (flowers already on my tomatoes!), the problem is, we can get frosts up until the second week of June, in these parts!
But the plants are growing so fast, that they really need to be moved on into their final pots. The greenhouse is like a chilli farm, so many chillis germinated this year.
So I now watching the weather for any frosty nights, the greenhouse is heated with a 2kW propane heater, and it’s also insulated with bubble wrap – but this is just there to keep the temperature above 3 degrees C – to avoid jack frost!
I’ve got a remote thermometer in the greenhouse beaming back live temperatures to the house!