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Lots of large pumpkins taking over allotments 

A Surrey couple say a giant pumpkin they have grown, estimated to weigh 390kg (860lbs), has taken over their allotment.

Justin Griffiths and Kay Walker from Ashtead have grown the winter squash on their plot at the Leatherhead Poors Allotments, in the shadow of the M25.

The pair plan to take it to the UK National Giant Vegetables Championship at the Malvern Autumn Show, but say they aren't yet sure how they will move it.

They estimate a second giant pumpkin on their plot weighs 250kg (560lbs), heavier than a baby elephant..   

[Minusminnie]

Tidying garden today & thinking what not to grow next year rather than what to grow.
Some fried saxifage gone in the bin but signs on another of regrowth.

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Do U mean 'fried' as in affected by the  or did U try to cook it 

Grow what you like to eat and what you enjoy looking at from your windows. Our apple trees look lovely, leaves are turning slowly; evening primrose which self seed still in flower as as the small pink rosebuds along one trellis.  Late flowering thug of a clematis still going strong. 

Apparently we need to think drought in future .......... my plants have 2 chances, they will either survive/not.  Sometimes moving from one area of the garden to another is enough to kick start them. 

[Minusminnie]

Fried primroses as well  don’t think I will be replacing them unless they’ve managed to self seed.
I’ve got evening primrose which has self seeded & should flower next year.
Cosmos have done well in all the heat. Still in flower as I keep deadheading them.
Loads of apples everywhere.

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Primroses/polyanths don't do well here unless kept damp and in deep shade.  Last year I moved a few clumps and they have flowered in fits and starts since 

R your evening primrose tall?  As with the hollyhocks here, they are all putting out flowers when I expected them to wait until May 2026. The former I allow to self seed, I had intended to move 8 hollyhocks to a more appropriate site but they are flowering  .  I've spread seed too ........ time will tell 

[Minusminnie]

I've got rosettes of self seeded evening primrose plants coming through now from plants i grew last year.  No doubt they will get taller and flower next year.  Same with a bushy biennial echium.

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Oh echium, is that the plant that grows really really high and attracts lots of insects?

Rosettes - that's a good description: I thought mine would wait until next year, but apparently they are keen to flower 

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I need to put onto our 2026 calendar to remove hellebores leaves from November, 'cos it's a chore when every where is muddy!  However, dry weather has enabled me to take a lot of for the bin, finding buds beneath layers of leaves which are in the compost. 

Bluebells being removed because they have spread ....... they bury their bulbs deeply! 

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Aconites; snowdrops; hellebores and crocii peeping through despite snow on ice though the air has warmed a little in the last couple of hours