Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 45 Entries. Sunday, June 12 View Page Bit behind with my diary this year, what with one thing and the other ive just not gotten around to it. Yes poor excuse I know! Well a bit of a change for me this year as im only growing one pumpkin plant. Ive got two plants going in the same patch at the moment, both Cutrupi seeds. Heres a 1726 plant   Sunday, June 12 View Page and heres the second plant which is a 1713 Cutrupi. Thanks again for the seeds Stefano!! Both started on the 16th of april   Sunday, June 12 View Page I was hoping to get pumpkins set before decideing which plant to keep but I think ill have to pull one out before we get that far, running out of space   Sunday, June 12 View Page Marrows are back on the agenda this year, indoor and outdoor. Ive a strip alongside my big tunnel for the outdoor plants   Sunday, June 12 View Page two of my outdoor plants back to back   Sunday, June 12 View Page one of my indoor marrow plants. Im growing my own seeds as well as Fortey, Glazebrook and a couple of unknown striped marrow seeds (ebay) . thanks again to Peter Glazebrook and to the Fortey brothers. I think this is a fortey marrow.   Sunday, August 7 View Page not going to be a pumpkin year for me this year, my pumpkin plant grew very slowly this year and still hasn't filled its patch looks healthy though   Sunday, August 7 View Page The pumpkin itself didn't grow at much of a pace either   Sunday, August 7 View Page it doesn't make much difference anyways because its gone down to a BES. Dissapointing that I wont have a pumpkin to take to the weigh in this year but that's how it goes   Sunday, August 7 View Page my big tunnel is full of marrows this year, looking fairly healthy at the moment although I spotted the first signs of mildew this morning. view from the north end   Sunday, August 7 View Page view from the south end. all my indoor plants have marrows pollenated on. Ive made several Fortey/Glazebrook and reverse crosses   Sunday, August 7 View Page most of the fortey marrows look like this, fairly happy with the shapes of them lets hope they don't all split. The marrows on my own seeds are coming bent again like they usually do, my battery died before I got to take a picture of one of them   Sunday, August 7 View Page the Glazebrook marrows are mostly very smooth skinned no ribs at all yet.   Sunday, August 7 View Page massive stem on the Glazebrook marrow.   Sunday, August 7 View Page the outside plants have taken some wind damage and are going to be a little later pollenated, ive 2 plants left to pollenate out here hope to get them all set this week. Ive many plants this year as you can see haha although they are smaller than previous years so hoping to avoid the dreaded splitting with a few but im not sure if the plants will be big enough to grow a real big one but time will tell   Thursday, August 25 View Page Well of the four stains of marrow seeds ive been growing ive had mixed results. This striped marrow grew from a seed from a grower unknown to me, was from the seed I bought off ebay. I only planted one of these seeds and ive a fairly nice marrow which is 38 inches long. It grew for about four weeks and I think its just about done now.   Thursday, August 25 View Page I grew several of peters seeds, this one is the largest and is about 45 inches long its sunk on the back end which I don't think is a problem however it has stem issues. The stem seemed to be growing away from the marrow on one side so I tried to re position the marrow a little to relieve stem stress and I heard a little crack. I haven't touched it since so we'll have to wait and see what happens.   Thursday, August 25 View Page this is another glazebrook marrow (much younger)   Thursday, August 25 View Page a couple of the Glazebrook marrows only grew for just over three weeks before ripening and now look like they are turning a little orange   Thursday, August 25 View Page another, lovely shape, lovely smooth skin just a shame they didn't grow a little longer   Thursday, August 25 View Page Weve been suffering dill rings with the fortey marrows and ive lost three of them already to splits which is a shame because the skins look so young I think they would grow for a long time   Thursday, August 25 View Page this is the same marrow again a few days later. it actually went down to a stem split   Thursday, August 25 View Page my best fortey marrow at the moment   Thursday, August 25 View Page A marrow I had going on one of my 78 seeds. This one split on a dill ring it was 45 inches long and I estimated it at about 130-140 lbs and it felt heavy however it weighed 115 lbs and I must be getting weak.   Thursday, August 25 View Page this one on a 76 seed also went down to a dill ring again I thought it looked larger than it was. it weighed 105 lbs and was around 42 inches long   Thursday, August 25 View Page This is another marrow I have on one of my 78 seeds, this one looks to be a better shape and is perhaps my best chance of a big marrow at the moment. id say its around 110 lbs based on the weights of the other two I weighed   Thursday, August 25 View Page finally, this is another marrow off one of my 78 seeds. This one is growing outside and hopefully got some more growth left in it.   Sunday, September 11 View Page most of my marrows are done growing now so I weighed a few of them on the bathroom scales this afternoon so I can start clearing up in the patch. To sum up the season id say it was too hot growing the marrows in the tunnel and most of them ripened far earlier than they should have done, the outdoor plants were someways behind pollination and were looking more hopefull until the weather became unsettled and then they started splitting. Heres the striped marrow it weighed 100 lbs   Sunday, September 11 View Page heres one of the 115 Glazebrook marrows this one weighed 95.2 lbs and seemed very dense   Sunday, September 11 View Page another 115 which decided to turn orange, unbelievably heavy at 119 lbs I thought it looked more like 80 ish shame its gone orange because I guess this wouldn't be considered to be a true marrow   Sunday, September 11 View Page 95.2 and 119 not sure wether to save seeds from these   Sunday, September 11 View Page another 115 weighed in at 81 lbs   Sunday, September 11 View Page now this 115 looked more like it and was perhaps potentially the best marrow ive seen all season until it went down to a dill ring split after a heavy storm. Weighed 97 lbs but would have gone more   Wednesday, September 14 View Page 103 DMG (78 Baggs x 115 Glavebrook) on the left 118 DMG (115 Glazebrook x Sibb) on the right Weighed these two today, they both went down to stem splits a week or so ago but ive left them on the vine to see how much bigger they would get however one of them started to develop a rotten area so wanted to get a weight of them before it was too late.   Wednesday, September 14 View Page My little princess sat on the 118.   Wednesday, September 14 View Page Nice and thick. Ive taken seeds out of both these two marrows as I think these are two of my best crosses hovever we will have to wait and see if they are viable or not as they weren't proper ripened.   Tuesday, September 27 View Page Took my best marrow to Malvern last weekend and weighed a few more marrows which split. This one weighed 140 lbs and went down to a stem split it was grown from one of the fortey seeds   Tuesday, September 27 View Page This is the best marrow that I grew from Peters seed which Weighed in at 145 lbs. This one had splits around the stem also but I don't think any of them were terminal. Im not going to save seed from this one as theres a little orange trying to come through   Tuesday, September 27 View Page This is the one that went to malvern   Tuesday, September 27 View Page And after 10 years finally I have a new pb with this 151 lb marrow which took first place   Tuesday, September 27 View Page The competition was strong ive never seen as many entries   Tuesday, September 27 View Page Me and Clive with the marrow 151 Baggs 16 (78 Baggs x Fortey marrow)   Tuesday, September 27 View Page This is the marrow I had going on the plant which I used to pollenate the 151. Was looking good   Tuesday, September 27 View Page But it split. Weighed 141 lbs.   Tuesday, October 4 View Page Well my diagnosis of a blossom end split earlier in the season was a little off, I didn't probe it about just assumed the worst. What actually happened was the blossom completely rotted off and then seemed to dry up. So I have a small pumpkin to take to the weigh off on Saturday plus my last two marrows