Author Topic: Pumpkin  (Read 3505 times)

Bert

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • Isle of Mull
Pumpkin
« on: October 01, 2012, 08:48:20 pm »
Can you ripen pumpkin off the vine?  The vine has gone down hill very rapidly over the last week. And now is dead :'( . But monty ( the pumpkin) is still green so he is now sitting on the windowsill. Hoping someone will tell me that he will still ripen.

MAK

  • Joined Nov 2011
  • Middle ish of France
    • Cadeaux de La forge
Re: Pumpkin
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2012, 08:54:06 am »
Not sure but I would leave it on the vine and cover with straw if you expect a frost.
Our vines looked dead after the very dry weather and when I could not water as frequentley as usual. We had some heavy rain and it has given them new life, flowers and a couple of new fruits on each vine ( growing like mad). I will leave them as our growing season is a bit longer this far south.
Martin


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Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Pumpkin
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2012, 10:37:24 am »
Jack frost toasted my pumpkins last week and they will be duly composted later today, very poor crop this year, see my commnets under butternut squash topic
mandy :pig:

Eve

  • Joined Jul 2010
Re: Pumpkin
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2012, 03:37:47 pm »
Yes, it will still ripen on the windowsill.
 :wave:

Bert

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • Isle of Mull
Re: Pumpkin
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2012, 08:37:43 pm »
Thanks Eve  :thumbsup:
 That's really good news. I'm so pleased monty will ripen after he put so much effort into growing.
Sorry to hear the frost got your pumpkins Fowgill Farm.

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Pumpkin
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2012, 09:09:26 pm »
Not a single fruit on mine.

 

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