Achievement: I have grown my biggest pumpkin / squash to date!
Squash (ironic name) size is:
-the diameter from your hand to elbow! (approx!)
It's somehow flattened a bit if you were to look from above (heavy from gravity I assume) and was starting to grow even in between the pallet it sits on (it's my anti-slug device)... but I put extra wood in between to stop that (can see in picture) so still large overall (which squash is but really impressive in real life when almost x2 bowling balls !!
Probably 'normal' for a squash (the more correct name) while still growing vertically I think- 'm scare to even get near it to measure it's progress!
picture of pumpkin
the left one ;p
@ChaplainEric Honestly no idea what type of squash / pumpkin it is !
But I have two types (the one in picture someone had young from pot and the other is Hokkaido from my own seeds). The Hokkaido is a fun story if you want to read on!
I collected seeds from a Hokkaido squash 5+ years after literally cleaning them in my mouth to get fibrous parts off them and and put them in in a jar ... then with this whole COVID thing I thought "right time to use it or lose it!" this year...
I didn't expect the Hokkaido to start growing (these type I think at this link https://www.rareseeds.com/red-kuri-squash-hokkaido) so that's why I put all the seeds in a line almost on top of each other (50-100 white oval seeds) thinking that most won't grew but I think they were very fertile!
And because they get watered with the rest I think eventually they come out...
In a way this pile together saved watering individually and area cover as it's all centralised (even though this way will take longer to grow but it catches up fast and will still be happy if some are a bit late (might be able to sleep with them to keep them warm or put them in Greenhouse) we'll see because it's a nice surprise to the question mark at the beginning if they would grow and right now the Hokkaido have given fist size fruit so not bad! Getting good indicators.
I was even thinking about digging parts of it up earlier to move it, but honestly it takes a lot of space everywhere and needs better soil (I have stony soil anyway) so when someone had extra unwanted soil I said "yeah just dump the soil anywhere here" and they dumped it and I used the centralised mound to then grow out (after flattening the mound a bit - 4m squared)
That unknown type (pictured) also has a friend next door (to the right of picture) and is also getting massive and starting to go orange... almost falling off the gate / grill !!! that's I put stick there vertically in the grill to stop it rolling off!
>_< hehe :D
@ChaplainEric All began from these the Hokkaido seeds...
I think I might have put too many in one place (but I didn't have the soil area anyway, and I only found out what would potentially grow after which I think was... err almost all of them many years in a jar !)
Will add pic of Hokkaido soon...
I'll call it the Hokkaido hadoukens!
#Squash / #Pumpkin
#Vegetable #Gardening
"We're getting squashed so I might as well grow some...
squash"