Pumpkins do like coffee grounds! 🎃🙂👍
Pumpkins Growing in Coffee Compost
Pumpkin might be the most successful crop to ever grow in my garden. At times I carried out some self pollination, only because there did not seem to be enough bees around, and these clumsy hands broke off too many of the male flowers in the attempt than I care to admit!
As it turns out, there were plenty of bees, I just wasn’t paying attention. Either way, I’ve got a dozen lavender and rosemary cuttings that will be in place for next Spring (and many Hyssop seedlings on the way), and every bee within 5 kilometers will be stopping by to say hi.
Let’s track the progress of this little pumpkin, labelled as Pumpkin Diggers Prize Winner (from Diggers).
When it was time to prepare the pumpkin for storage, I left him out for a week in a sunny spot to ripen some…
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