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Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
At present there seems to be a growing frenzy across the nation – I wonder why? All my usual online seed and greenhouse suppliers are out of stock or stating 28-day delivery lead times, on items!
So a few of you readers, have been sending me photos and telling me what you’ve been growing.
So this has inspired this blog today, to show you What is growing in Andysworld! greenhouse?
I currently do not have any compost, so I’ve had to resort to “Andys Special Blend No.1” – e.g. homemade compost from compost corner!
Have fun, and keep growing….
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Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
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.
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Monday, July 29th, 2019
This giant pumpkin plant is taking over like a triffid! This spell of rain we’ve had in the past few days, it’s really grown!
It’s started to flower so I’ve been selecting flowers and hand pollinating to get it to fruit.
Tags: giant, pumpkin, vegetable
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Sunday, June 16th, 2019
Time to plant out, a little late in the year really for a giant pumpkin, but I’ve had issues with germination, batches of seeds, and today when planting out we had the heaviest hail storm for years, and I got very wet!
Tags: allotments, Halloween, pumpkins
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Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
I’ve been preparing the location at the allotments to transplant the young plants.
Allotments
Allotments
Allotments
and here are the latest photos of the plants
Giant Pumpkin plants
Tags: allotments, Halloween, pumpkins
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Friday, May 31st, 2019
Pumpkin plants
Pumpkin plants
After some fettle-ing, the seedling on the left has emerged, and hopefully it’s real leaves will appear.
Tags: Halloween, pumpkins
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
Pumpkin Day 3
Pumpkin Day 3
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.
Pumpkin Day 4
Pumpkin Day 4
Tags: giant, Halloween, pumpkins
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
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)
Giant Pumpkin
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.
Pumpkin Day 1
Pumpkin Day 2
Tags: giant, Halloween, pumpkin
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