2016 Weigh-In Day – Saturday the 5th of March. It’s here, TOMORROW is the 2016 Giant Pumpkin Weigh-in day. This article is brought to you by our friends from Living Seeds,…
This afternoon was a very fruitful one in the front garden. Yesterday my father-in-law and our groundsman finished a small project to fence off a large strip of the front…
The great pumpkin experiment has come to an end for this summer, due to the heatwave and a bout of mildew that I didn’t fix in time. It has been…
The great pumpkin escape! Last week there were three Atlantic Giant pumpkins that had escaped the hugelkultur bed and started growing on one of the hedges. Remember these guys? Well,…
The Dill’s Atlantic Giants continue to do well. Our two main ones are about the size of soccerballs right now. We had to set up a protective barrier around one…
The giant pumpkin project started at the end of September 2014. After reading up on hugelkultur we set up a raised bed using some of its concepts. The bed didn’t…