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Simo · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:20 am

The kids are growing giant atlantic pumpkins for our local community market in autumn, this is th biggest so far, first pic show whole vine.

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The pumpkin

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and only a few days later, man they grow quick :shock:

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Lets see how big I can get this thing by April

dufflight · **Posted:** Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:29 pm

Put a bucket with a small hole next to the base of the plant and fill it every few days. Add a little(very small amount of fert) to the water when you fill the bucket.

gnash · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:52 pm

Thats a top Idea Duff

Awesome pumpkin plant simo :wink:

Simo · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:49 pm

This was as big as the pumpkin got, saved some seeds and will try for a bigger one next time round

Simo · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:55 pm

Finally got a round to building a compost bin,i t is two bays wide enought to get a bobcat bucket into, front sheet of tin slides to either side for access. Right now I am just putting old hay and horse manure in it from when I clean out the stables but I plan start composting properly in the future. This has been on the "to do" list for years, didn't take long, just always seems to be something else to do.

Simo · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:16 pm

Put my spuds in in April as they has started to sprout, using Duff's trench and hill method this year, hilled up in early June. We never get a frost as we are on top of a hill so should be a bumper crop. :joy:

Simo · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:24 pm

Four butternut pumkins (squash) in the pumpkin patch produced about 20 pumpkins this year, I think I am starting to push the family's tolerance to pumkin soup though :lol:

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My two year old passionfruit vine is producting well, I fogot the variety but they never change colour from green so I have to wait until they fall off the vine to know the are ripe.

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My very first ever two oranges from my Newall orange, which is a type of navel I think?

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Peasants · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:45 pm

Fantastic! What a great pumpkin :thumb:

Faye · **Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:25 pm

Looking good there Simo, I wish my potatoes were doing as good as your. Probably cause I haven't planted them yet :bash:

Simo · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:25 am

Some photos of my veggie patch.

This is my sweet potato bed, started with 1 sweet potato cut in half and sprouted in a glass of water then planted in the dirt. When the vines get about 60cm long I dig a hole and push the middle of the vine under the dirt so it can take root, a few months later I cut the vine between the two roots and create a new plant that will form a new tuber. Doesn't take long before one tuber can be propergated to fill a whole garden bed.

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This is my first time growing asparagus (fern like plants in front) only been in for 6 months have to wait a few years before eating but I am very excited :joy:

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Lemon grass and rubarb are going off, does any one know if you need to trim back lemon grass when it goes to seed, and are the seeds easy to propergate?

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Bender · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:48 am

Looking good Simo :rock:

I though sweet potato was a warm season crop :confused:

I'm trying to sprout a tuber in a glass of water at the moment with no luck yet. Will keep trying.

I'm not sure about growing lemon grass from seed but I know they grow well from divisions. Just lift the plant every couple of years and split it up into a few smaller ones.

Charlie · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:34 pm

Love ya work simo :thumb:

Simo · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:57 pm

All of my potato plants in this bed died while was away, I blame dry July, but it allowed me an early potato haverst.

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I got all these spuds and carrots from the bed and it freed up some space for me to plant out beans.

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Here are the jeruselum artichokes I got from one plant, I am super impressed with the productvity of this plant, easy to grow and taste great too.

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Simo · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2012 11:00 pm

I got some monster carrots out of that bed too.

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Having a spring like winter means my little chilli is still producing.

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Bender · **Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:20 pm

Nice harvest Simo :thumb:

I like the way you put a mini orange lighter next to the normal sized orange lighter. No one can accuse you of using a mini lighter as scale next to that monster carrot

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