Last summer, I wrote about trying to grow pumpkins. I ended up successfully producing two. They were butternut variety.
This year, I tried again. Put in a few seeds of a variety which grows best in pots. So I have a few tennis ball sized (so far) yellow fruits in vines growing in pots.
I also decided to try again growing giant pumpkins. I planted a few seeds in a compost heap. Now I have several very healthy vines growing out of that heap and several pumpkins rapidly fattening up. I do not really want a 50 kilogram pumpkin, as I cannot lift such a beast, but I am very curious to see how big I can grow them.
This makes up in part for the disaster which has been this year’s attempt at growing heirloom tomatoes. I take some consolation in knowing that it is a bad year for tomatoes for a lot of people, from what I have heard.
Lost For Words! 