The Great Pumpkin!

Richard · 09-30-2008, 01:17 PM

The Great Pumpkin is coming!

mskitty38583 · 10-01-2008, 07:48 AM

its the great pumpkin charlie brown! ......see i told you the great pumpkin was real....

harveyc · 10-02-2008, 04:22 PM

I'd like to grow some big pumpkins again next year. The last time I grew them successfully was about 7 years ago and I still enjoy looking at the photo of my son (who was then 3) sitting on one. My biggest was only about 125 pounds but that was at least something I could move around fairly easy. The next time I tried all of the plants died, apparently from some root rot. We're a bit too hot here to grow the really big ones without misting systems, shade cloth, etc.

lt_eggbeater · 10-02-2008, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by harveyc

I'd like to grow some big pumpkins again next year. The last time I grew them successfully was about 7 years ago and I still enjoy looking at the photo of my son (who was then 3) sitting on one. My biggest was only about 125 pounds but that was at least something I could move around fairly easy. The next time I tried all of the plants died, apparently from some root rot. We're a bit too hot here to grow the really big ones without misting systems, shade cloth, etc.

I've got a patch here. No really big ones though, had about 75 or so from the first wave. Javelinas ate about 50 of those, although they wont be eating anymore! I am hoping the second wave will make it in time for halloween also. I have three or four different varieties, including the white ghost pumpkins. None have gotten any bigger than about 30lbs though. Although they might have if it wasnt for the javalina raid!

Richard · 10-16-2008, 01:58 PM

Don't forget to put out a welcome sign!

momoese · 10-16-2008, 05:57 PM

Behold, the great pumpkin, and he takes no prisoners!

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c..._2021_70388457

island cassie · 10-17-2008, 12:18 AM

Haha!!

Bob · 10-17-2008, 09:17 AM

Richard , good post, got to love Halloween time. Harvey, were they "Atlantic giants"? I started some seed I bought during last winters over ambitious 'catalog season" and had to give the seedlings away , not enough space to do it right. Next years "veg" garden is all ready set : all the bananas I've collected in the past month and a half Tomatoes and Basil(this years new tomato will be "Cherokee purple" , Catalogs haven't even come out and it;s all planned and ready before Halloween!

harveyc · 10-17-2008, 12:01 PM

Yes, Bob, I believe they were Altantic Giant, though they certainly didn't grow up like these:
Pumpkin grower stakes record hopes on 'Beast from the East' - The Boston Globe
but the disappointment:
Wait 'til next year: Great pumpkin springs leak - The Boston Globe

To borrow Mitchel's phrase (used for Hawaiian Apple), those are some bad boys!!!

Richard · 10-21-2008, 09:42 PM

10 days 'til the Great Pumpkin!

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