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Red
Kuri (Hokkaido Orange) or Potimarron
Pumpkin
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Pumpkin (Hokkaido orange)
experiment in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Compost Leaves in Your
City Garden and Build a Trellis Fence
Gardens in Ojai and Santa
Barbara Botanical Garden
Tomato Factory -
small hothouse experiment
Garden Green Roof
installation of sedums
Porch, pond and streambed
construction
Greenhouse
construction from a kit
Border gardens,
guerrilla gardening
Benefits of Gardening
Projects for Kids
Birds - Bluetits
- Pimpelmezen growing up
Meditation Garden –
Design, Layout, Planting
When picked this Hokkaido orange or Potimarron
pumpkin was 18 inches (46cm) around
and weighed just under 1 kilo or about 2 pounds. It was 94 days to maturity. We
live at the 52nd latitude and have a town size garden 20 feet wide by 60 feet
deep.
Following is the pumpkin story by Susan Helene Kramer told in
photos and description -
1. The Hokkaido orange pumpkin seed was planted May 17 and the 1st one
harvested August 12th - 94 days. The vine is at lower left in the photo below.
I planted the seed in store-bought plant potting soil with a base of garden
composted soil, at least 5 years old. I gave one feeding of MiracleGro
after pumpkins started forming.
2. The vine started climbing the palm tree
and the fence so I built this trellis on the east facing fence out of bamboo
canes, mostly, to support the vines. The trellis is slanted toward the fence.
See our male resident blackbird atop the gate watching ...
3. Here is the trellis all ready for the
vines to be carefully woven upon it.
4. You can see some very beginning
pumpkins in the photo below.
5. Just after placing the vines on the
trellis. I used 2 inch wide strips of bubble wrap to secure the vines.
6. Do you see the big white circle - it
surrounds the 1st pumpkin harvested and in the photo at the top of the page.
7. Here is the 1st pumpkin harvested. I
hung it in an empty onion sack and ran the wire through the top of the sack. It
is drying out by hanging from a rafter in the garden shed where it does not
freeze. It is sitting here only for the photo session. We're going to eat it on
Thanksgiving Day.
8. Here I am, eyes almost closed as
usual, displaying our 1st pumpkin.
9. Our most prolific zucchini plant, growing
on the other side of the pathway from the pumpkin - it produced 10 fruits a
foot long each when I harvested them.
Copyright 2001-2012 Susan Kramer
Santa Barbara, California USA
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Published by Creations in Consciousness
email susan@susankramer.com
web site http://www.susankramer.com
page updated August 24, 2012