Pumpkin
Cucurbita
Journals (96)
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Day 102
Harvesting: Harvested another Buttercup/turban looking squash
This entry is about Cmagnus's Mystery Squash in the Backyard garden.
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Day 96
Harvesting: Harvested the biggest squash
Today we harvested the biggest squash. I decided it was ready to harvest because the vine around it was dead and its peduncle was starting to loose volume. It was just under 20 pounds. The underside was scarred a bit, so I’m not sure how long it will keep. It has been moved to the winter...
This entry is about Cmagnus's Mystery Squash in the Backyard garden.
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Day 109
Well, I pulled up the pumpkin. It was starting to take over part of the lawn that I didn’t want it to go to, and I didn’t have more room to move the vines. Although I have bees come to do their thing, I never saw anything that looked like a baby pumpkin bud near any of the flowers. ...
This entry is about Lisapizza's Pumpkin planting in the Vegetable garden.
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Day 94
My peanut-shaped squash is getting bigger. It’s stripey, or I’d think it was a butternut. I have several new proto-squash that have hopefully been fertilized. It’s awfully late in the season, but we could luck out with a late first frost so i’m leaving them. Plus, th...
This entry is about Cmagnus's Mystery Squash in the Backyard garden.
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Day 92
Harvesting: harvested tiny squash
I harvested my tiniest buttercup squash today. It’s vine had pretty much died down, its stem had started to turn woody. This has been going on for a while. But today I noticed that its peduncle was starting to get skinnier. When I cut it, the peduncle was still wet and herbaceous by the...
This entry is about Cmagnus's Mystery Squash in the Backyard garden.
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Day 0
Sown: Sown
This entry is about Without Context's Lumina Pumpkin in the Square Foot garden.
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Day 91
Fruiting: New squash?
My squash patch seems to have gotten some sort of a second wind. My peanut-shaped flower was fertilized and seems to be growing into a squash. I have two new vines with several female flowers. There’s a little over a month before the first frost date, so we’ll see how long it takes...
This entry is about Cmagnus's Mystery Squash in the Backyard garden.
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Day 91
I’ve been wondering when to pick my squash. Today, for the first time ever, my hubbard squash vine looked extremely unhappy. I don’t think it’s dying because anything is wrong with it, I think its dying because it has fulfilled its purpose. The tiny green squash’s vine ...
This entry is about Cmagnus's Mystery Squash in the Backyard garden.
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Day 85
Harvesting: Was one pumpkin worth it?
The pumpkin vine and I fought it out. The slugs and I fought it out. And eventually, all I got out of it was one single pumpkin. First came the vines that grew much larger than I had expected, and much longer than I had room for. I was cutting down vines from trees, I was moving vines out of t...
This entry is about Kat Powers's Pumpkin in the Deion's garden.
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Day 86
Flowering: New female squash flower
After quite a long while of no new signs of squashes, I have a new female flower. It was open yesterday and today the fruit seemed a bit bigger, so if I’m lucky, it was fertilized. This one is shaped like a peanut instead of a kelp bladder. Every other female flower has had a kelp bladde...
This entry is about Cmagnus's Mystery Squash in the Backyard garden.
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