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Monday, August 25, 2014
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Mumbles
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Somerset, UK
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I meant to post a few weeks ago but I've been a bit lazy :-) My last post was on tuesday 5th, & on thursday I noticed it had started to go soft on the left-hand side. But I wanted to know how heavy this pumpkin actually was, so I had a plan; I got a pallet & weighed it, & I arranged for 4 mates to come round on the saturday morning, & I thought if we could somehow get it onto the pallet & into the back of a van, we could've taken it down the local scrapyard and asked the guys down there nicely if they could lift it out with the forklift & pop it on their scales. I was amazed how fast this pumpkin went rotten, we decided it was just too far gone to try & move it... so we ended up just rolling it over a couple of times.
Things I'll do different next year; shade netting (it got too hot for a few weeks in that polytunnel), don't think I'll bother with the cellotex (maybe just some plywood & sand), maybe try for more for an 's' bend (although I don't think that's the cause of my stem split), but I tried to grow my pumpkin from a flower with deformed lobes & I'm convinced that if I'd gone with my 3rd pollination (only 4 lobes but a nice-looking flower) I'd still have a nice big pumpkin that was still growing! I'll put these down to rookie mistakes... ;-)
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