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cramsay's Sugar Pumpkin

Plant: Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo var. pepo) | Variety: Small Sugar | Day 225 | 0 | Unhappy

04 Oct 2009
Mildew and vines dying Sugar Pumpkin Dying and Vegetable garden
The leaves are looking very sad, and most of the vines have stopped growing. I’ve got a few plump fruits that are still very green, hoping that the warm spell we’re supposed to get next week will help ripen them. Have harvested one nice little pumpkin that did ripen.
17°C / 62°F
15 Jul 2009
First fruits withered and died Sugar Pumpkin and Vegetable garden
The first 4 or 5 fruits got brown spots, then shriveled up and died. Might have been the terrible heatwave we had. We had a bit of a cool down last weekend, and a few more have started to form. Hoping these will make it all the way. Meanwhile, the vines have been going nuts! They’re huge!
29°C / 84°F
29 Jun 2009
I has a pumpkin! Sugar Pumpkin Setting Fruit and Vegetable garden
Noticed a few fruits starting to form. I’ll let each vine produce two, and snip off the rest.
Sunny 22°C / 72°F
25 Jun 2009
Blooming and explosive growth Sugar Pumpkin Flowering and Vegetable garden
I swear they doubled in size over a three day weekend away from the garden. We got good rain while we were gone, and now lots of sun, so they’ve gotten enormous. One is starting to climb a rose bush (which can handle it, so I’ll let it), another started working on my tomato cages and ...
Overcast 18°C / 65°F

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