Thanks Westi, your reply seems sensible to me. I'll wait and see

Can anyone tell me why my heathy pumpkins form, flower opens, bees seem to enter the flower. the flower dies back and the pumpkin appears to be fine then it yellows and dies. The plant still seems healthy. I have 11 small pumpkin on 5 plants but have lost about the same like this.

Thanks to all of you

I'm convinced I'll give it a try, I'll let you know later in the year.


BG

Hi All
I have a three bay compost bin, one full of 9 month old cow muck. Can I plant a pumpkin directly into the muck without loss of the plant, I started the pumpkin in the greenhouse at the beginning of May.

BG

Thanks Stephen and Westi, it turns out that it may be a leaf minor bee that nibbles the leaf and as Westi said it do not affect the crop, this was from a very knowledgeable man on the allotment. We do have rabbits so I will block them. Thanks Both

Hi All I am new to the forum and newish to growing fruit and veg. I have recently got an allotment, my Broad Beans have been nibbled by rabbits but not destroyed completely, should I fence the beans or is the nibbling suggestive of them not liking them. This may be a utterly stupid question but I do...