The Pumpkin Jack O’ Lantern serves as an ideal choice for decoration, carving, and culinary use. Symbolizing the essence of autumn, these pumpkins can reach impressive dimensions, with a diameter of 20-30cm and a weight ranging from 5-7kg. Particularly well-suited for spacious areas in the allotment, they have the potential to grow quite large. A must-have addition to your autumn harvest, combining both ornamental and practical qualities.
Cultivation Tips
Once you have 3 fruits starting to form, remove any flowers that develop. We need to concentrate everything into one pumpkin. Once the three small pumpkins have started pick the best one and pinch off the other two.
If you’ve an old palette on site, put that under the small pumpkin whilst you still can or even some straw. You can use plastic sheet but it can encourage rotting if water puddles under the fruit. It’s really annoying to have a wonderful pumpkin and find the part on the ground has rotted. Some slug defence is a good idea as well.
Use a liquid feed like Miracle Grow fortnightly or liquid comfrey feed with some added sulphate of ammonia to increase the nitrogen content.
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