Monday 15 April 2013

WEEKLY TALLY - NUMBER 12

I have been a little absent the last few weeks but bare with me as I catch up on some posts. We have been a little unwell here and extremely busy to top it all off! The garden is still a little slow as the winter veggies make the most of the sunny weather. My zucchinis have made a come back and hope to pick some of those soon!  Although they are growing much slower than when the weather was lovely and warm! The last of my pumpkins were harvested this week as the vine dried up. I have a nice supply for winter!

8/4/13 - 14/4/13

26 eggs
15490 grams pumpkin
8 g chili

TOTAL 26 EGGS AND 15.498 KILOS OF FOOD

8 comments:

  1. Hi Nat
    Are the pumpkins and zucchinis part of the 'Diggers' range? The reason I ask is that we up on the NSW coast had a lot of humidity this summer, and all the heirloom pumpkins I grew disliked it, how was your weather for pumpkin growing? also as a recommendation, an heirloom type I found really nice was 'Aussie Butter', it is a big fruit, and even out of date seeds germinated. I hope winter crops are good to you this year, cheers, Rob Gordon

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    1. Hi Rob, yes they are apart of the diggers range. The zucchini's I grew were the tri colour mix and the pumpkin I grew was the free one offered to members known as the cinderella pumpkin and the other one sprouted from the compost I presume. We were away for a month of the growing season (funny enough on the NSW coast) but they seemed to do really well. And don't recall there being too much humidity while we were still in Melbourne. We had a lot of heat and not much rain and if I remember correct coastal NSW got quite a drenching. I got a great size on them and the vine lasted until a few weeks ago when I presume the frost destroyed them virtually overnight. (although one vine is still growing but this it is protected.) I have always looked at the australian butter but never purchased, I will have to give it a go because I love butternut pumpkins! Thanks so do I :D

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    2. Oh and the zucchinis did really well as well! a little bit of mildew towards the end of the season but the plant has recovered and I am getting a lot of flowers and some fruit!

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    3. And one more thought the name the cinderella pumpkin is advertised as is Rouge vif D'Etampes. It was very fast growing. When I cut the largest pumpkin I will be drying the seeds and if you would like some I can post some to you.

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  2. Thanks you Nat, I am always growing different pumpkins from diggers each year.
    If you like butternut types, then there is one exclusive to diggers called 'Wrinklenut', I didn't get the quantity of fruits, because of the humidity, but the size of the ones I got were atleast 4 times wider than the average butternut, I will check my seeds to see if they're still in date and post some to you as well, if you like.
    My postal address is 16 Akuna, Ave, Shortland, NSW, 2307.
    Thanks again, take care. Rob Gordon.

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    1. This was my second successful pumpkin growing year and I hope to include more next year! Wrinklenut sounds great and if you have spare I would love a couple of seeds. Awesome I better get onto some pumpkin recipes so I can cut my cinderella pumpkin up and start preserving some seeds!

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    2. Hi Nat, I have looked at the wrinkle nut pumpkins seeds, and they are ok date wise, I will also send some seeds from what we called 'a black pumpkin', but really its a dark green, with orange splashes as the more sun gets to them, it takes seemingly a lot of vine growing before even the first flowers, but once it starts, it keeps producing, small to medium fruits, with true butternut taste.
      Let me know if you're interested, cheers.

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    3. Awesome thanks :D never heard of black pumpkin, that sounds really interesting :D Looks like I will have an interesting pumpkin collection next summer!

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