Pumpkin Question

[hedgewizard]

Crocodiles have flowers?

[Andy Hamilton]

That was our 1 000 000 hit hedgewizard. I just went though the stats and worked it out.

To anwser your question, only in the spring

[hedgewizard]

The one millionth hit was a crap joke? I'm truly sorry!

[Kfish]

Generally, nipping little bits off a pumpkin vine doesn't upset it too badly. Mine made a break for the road, so I ripped out long bits of it, and it didn't seem to care (Qld blue, I think).

The female flower going brown and dropping off thing I think is either a lack of water or a lack of pollination. I still go around and pollinate by ripping the petals off a male flower and sticking it into the female. My boyfriend looks at me oddly and asks if it was good for me too.

But yes, generally they're tough buggers when they get going.

Kfish

[Wombat]

The one millionth hit was a crap joke? I'm truly sorry!

So you should be

Nev

[Shelle]

I still go around and pollinate by ripping the petals off a male flower and sticking it into the female. My boyfriend looks at me oddly and asks if it was good for me too.

my partner was just asking me what i was going to be doing on my day off on Wednesday ... i told him i was going to become a sex therapist and spend time helping out the little pumpkins

very important role i am having in my little garden!

[Shelle]

just wanted to share ...

yesterday i received a phone call from the real estate agents ... 30 days to vacate! Our rental property has been sold and we are required to move on.

I am now going to have to leave my pumpkin after we have just bonded:(

Excited about moving and starting a new garden and learning phase ... but sad about leaving my first garden ... will have to take a few photos before i go

[Millymollymandy]

Only 30 days? That's not much time is it? Did you have prior warning? Poor pumpkin.

That's one of the main reasons I am so glad I am not in rented any more - no-one can take my garden away from me. I spent so many years improving other people's gardens and having to leave £$£€$£$ worth of plants behind.

[hedgewizard]

Sympathy!

[Shelle]

Thanks M3 & HW.

That's one of the main reasons I am so glad I am not in rented any more - no-one can take my garden away from me. I spent so many years improving other people's gardens and having to leave £$£€$£$ worth of plants behind.

I actually have been told i am weird because of this ... but ... i actually find great satisfaction in doing this ... bringing life back into something & seeing for myself what a difference that makes ... then moving on with what i have learned and creating something new.

I have dried out some more pumpkin seeds ... so i will be taking what i have learned here in the last few weeks and starting again. Who knows, the next lot could be huge

[Millymollymandy]

Well in that case then, Shelle, wippee and . Hope you enjoy your new garden!! (but doesn't all that packing get you down?)

[Shelle]

a year ago we moved from melbourne to here - about 14 hour drive - so we minimised everything into what ever could fit into the back of our ute have not accumulated too much more since then (except basic furniture) so a few trips in the ute should do it!

[ina]

I suppose you do have the advantage of a longer growing season. Imagine, if that happened here, that you had to abandon what you've just planted - well, that would mean no veg at all for the next year.

[chadspad]

Sorry to bring up the pumpkin link again but Im confused about the hand pollination thingie. I have female flowers with balls already bheind them - are they not pumpkins then? Do they still need to be pollinated to grow?

[ina]

You being in France, I assume you've got your pumpkins outside - you shouldn't need to hand pollinate any of them, insects do that for you.