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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:18 pm
by peter
So are these monsters edible or not?
My canadian aquaintance tells me that any pumpkin over about 70lb is bitter and unusable.
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:47 pm
by Tigger
Mupkin...... is that a munchkin version of a pumpkin?
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:32 am
by peterf
peter wrote:So are these monsters edible or not?
My canadian aquaintance tells me that any pumpkin over about 70lb is bitter and unusable.
never tried a big un myself,dont think they will be very tasty
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:58 pm
by Geoff
We invited some neighbours round on Saturday to make a start on ours.
Pumpkin soup came out great from the 74lb orange one.
When roasted it went paler rather than darker like we are used to and didn't have as much flavour as the small Triple Treats that we usually grow. It certainly wasn't bitter or inedible, some of them had seconds and I'm sure it wasn't politeness.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:00 pm
by peterf
Geoff wrote:We invited some neighbours round on Saturday to make a start on ours.
Pumpkin soup came out great from the 74lb orange one.
When roasted it went paler rather than darker like we are used to and didn't have as much flavour as the small Triple Treats that we usually grow. It certainly wasn't bitter or inedible, some of them had seconds and I'm sure it wasn't politeness.
a lot of the americans save the seeds to roast in a low oven,very nice by all accounts
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:02 pm
by peterf
chantal i got new pics,help
PeterF's pumpkins MkII
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:33 pm
by Chantal
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:24 pm
by peterf
crikey ive had a bad day,the truck came to take my pumpkins to the local scrapyard for weighing.we had 4 people lifting the tarp,and only managed to move 3 fruit.the biggest was then tackled and we couldnt lift it.i then measured it and it wont fit through the damn gate.to make matters worse the fence is 10ft high
looks like im gunna have to saw it up and weigh all the bits on site.gutted isn't the word,chantal i'll send you the pics, peter.
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:40 pm
by Chantal
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:09 am
by peterf
well,ive been beaten again by 11 year old son (mikey) :cry .we had the newcastle evening chronicle out yesterday. to take pictures of his new record pb.his monster has weighed out at 407lbs.breaking last years 141lbs.the fruit was grown from a powers 1050lb seed.the feature should be in todays edition,thanks to everyone who had a try growing them.hope we can do it again next year.peter
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:09 pm
by peterf
just an update.bbclook north have been on the phone and they are comming out to film this afternoon.it will be shown at 6.30 tonight.
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 2:26 pm
by Chantal
Will you be featured or just your son? I'll make sure I'm watching on Sky.
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:51 pm
by peterf
Chantal wrote:Will you be featured or just your son? I'll make sure I'm watching on Sky.
hi chantal,crazy day here with film crews and live radio.thanks for all your help posting pics
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:09 pm
by Geoff
Look NorthEast is 975 on satellite.
Edited later.
Coverage rather short but it did show what an excellent beast it is, congratulations to both.
I notice it was pale like my biggest P1021, are they related Peter?
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:38 pm
by peter
So, how long did they take to film that?
Congratulations though, nice lad, bet some of his "mates" will rib him though.
