Growing Pumpkin

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29 May 11 Helena Stam (Australia - temperate climate)
Took a chance with a large pumpkin with broken stalk that had been sitting in sun for a 2 weeks or so. It sounded hollow. Cut it and it was absolutely beautiful-thick fleshed-did I say it grew from vegie peelings etc, dug into garden last year? Sometimes my best crops grow from throw outs dug into garden. As happened with tomatoes this year. What a lovely surprise to have crops growing well-all without buying seedlings!
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04 Jun 11 Hz (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Congrats Helena! Hollow sound means hard flesh inside - "cured", ie ready to pick and store.
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