The pumpkin patch and my new blog header
- tomatoesanddaisies
- Sep 5, 2015
- 1 min read

The end of July and the beginning of August the pumpkin patch looked glorious! I had really left the plants to grow without training them, only trimming the vines if they interfered with other crops. There were four pumpkins growing nicely. When the pumpkins reached the size of footballs I put beds of straw under them to keep them off the soil. Next time I will use something different as the straw started producing grass which was slightly annoying. On my allotment site there is a pumpkin competition where everyone tries to grow the largest pumpkin. I didn't enter as my daughter wanted more pumpkins for Halloween, so we didn't trim off all the baby pumpkins when they were growing. Apparently that's what you need to do to produce a huge pumpkin. It makes sense as all the nourishment from the vine only goes into the one pumpkin rather than many. Still I was quite happy with the sizes of the pumpkins we were growing.

Here is a photo of the pumpkin patch with the sweetcorn in the background.
Today you might have noticed I have a new header on the blog. My brother created it for me and I am delighted with it. I don't have the creative eye like he does. He is a freelance graphic designer and here is a link to his website www.gilamonster.co.uk
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