So what is happening with the pumpkins. We are starting to get to the business end of the growing season now. This time of the year is when we ideally want to ensure fertilisation of those female flowers to allow enough time for the last lot of pumpkins to mature and sweeten before the cold weather returns (especially the potential April frost).
Here is how mine are tracking. How are yours going? If you live south of Hobart, I would love to hear what varieties you have success with and how they usually taste.
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| Gold Nugget - About 6 to 8 pumpkins per plant of varying age - some ready to be picked in the next couple of week. |
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| Gold Nugget |
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| Buttercup - Each plants has 3 forming pumpkins with another couple at early stages. Hope these young 2 or 3 mature nicely by mid April |
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| Butternut- I am happy to see the 2 butternuts both with at least 1 well sized pumpkin. There are another 3 to 4 young ones so should see them ready before the cold weather arrives which is a good result for butternut down this way. |
I also have a Red Kurri which has 2 large pumpkins, but would like to see more pumpkins forming.
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| The worm farm has two pumpkins that have popped up from past compost. I let these go as well as a tomato to see how they went. I have no idea what the pumpkin is, but they are forming pumpkins so will be interesting to see how they taste. |
The bush and climbing beans are flowering now, with some climbing beans having grown faster than others. It has been hard to keep the water up to the beans, and this has been evident the last few days with some bush beans curling (a typical sign of lack of water). Below I took a picture of the climbing bean (Purple King) as they are pretty.
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| Climbing Bean - Purple King |
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