What a lovely couple of days it has been, hope the weather has been good for you, if this is anything to go by summer is going to be really really hot I think.
Giant Pumpkins
This week the plants all got another dose of Lithovit according to the schedule I have on my calendar as well as some Fish plus and Humus builder both from Environmental Fertilisers. Lithovit on the leaves and the other two as a ground drench, later on they will get it at a different rate and applied mainly as a foliar spray.
The random Mitre 10 seed is probably the worst off looking plant in the ground at the moment, it seems to be hanging in, has a female flower already forming but doesn’t really want to grow much, I’m not too worried about it.
The other two I had in the pot I gave to a workmate who managed to kill the other ones he was growing, I am putting it down to transplant shock and not hardening off the plant, I’ll keep an eye on how it all goes.
I have the little tiny one in a pot at the moment, and I’m sure it has had a growth spurt in the last couple of days, I will need to find somewhere to put it.
The one that was in the peet pot and started resembling a beanstalk and looked half dead is actually doing really well now, I am still gutted I don’t know what the actual seed is, but will have to wait and see what it can produce.
The other 3, the main ones are all looking well and doing good.
Miniatures
These are growing well, but I need to get hold of some other seeds as I misplaced a packet a while back and after turning the office upside down plus other parts of the house I have no idea where they have gone.
Weeding
Something I am going to keep on top of this season, it sure was hot today when I was doing it. The immediate area around the pumpkins is clear of weeds and the plants look great, but it is everywhere else I need to sort out, here is a before and after photo from this morning before it got too hot, will try and finish off this area later this evening.
Stuff I brought this week
I got a small measuring container as I needed this for working out mixtures of the liquid fertilisers etc.
And while I was down the aisle looking at measuring things I cam across this, I was initially thinking about getting knee pads as the ground in the patch can be a bit rough on my knees at times (such and old man) but I saw this kneeling board thing and the best thing was it was less then $3 to buy, and it has been working great when I have been weeding.
So how has your week been? How have your plants been doing and what great stuff have you been up to? Let me know via a comment below.
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Not being rude but Sam Sam Sam you got this cool sight an u got access to good seeds an a good patch u even seem to know most of the big tricks that should let u grow a least 2 3 or even 500lb fucken pumpkins yet year after year you post these shit looking plants an a patch that looks like a handicap guy owns! If u gunner run a sight have some pride an grow a good healthy pumpkin u big geek!!!
Hi Nathan thanks for the constructive criticism, in previous years I’ve had a lot of different stuff happening in my personal life which to be honest has effected the time I can put into pumpkin growing. This year I hope to produce some better results and hopefully rise up from the handicap guy level as you put it to something more like guy with a lisp level or maybe someone with an eye patch.
Thanks for checking out the website, I hope your season goes well and feel free to post some photos of your progress on the Facebook page. Cheers
Sam
lol good to see you have a great sense of humor sam.
i rate your site an the info you provide to other growers,
i wish i had access to some land next to a dairy farm as one of the big
players in the giant pumpkin game tells me he only started hitting over the 1000lb
mark when he gained access to a kind farmers penicillin milk.
this and a few other more ez to come by ingredients he swore by. another player
with great success tells me heating cable within the root system at a temp of
around 19 degrees helped keep his vines stong an healthy, made them grow faster
then past attempts. best of luck to ya this year, look forward to seeing how u get on.
Hi Nathan
There sure are a lot of different things people try and swear by and I think you need to use whatever you have available to you no matter what your situation is, just getting out there and giving it a go is the main thing.
Cheers
Sam