I saved some pumpkin seeds from two of our squashes that we grew last year. I sowed them in pots and put them on the kitchen windowsill and watered them lovingly. Only one seedling emerged – much to my disappointment. I planted it in a raised bed and kept a close eye on it, surrounding it with organic slug pellets whilst it was a vulnerable baby plant and then watering it when the days were dry. This morning I admired it.
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Well done. The two baby pumpkins I grew from last year’s seed and planted out – in pots standing in water to deter slugs – were both eaten by the blighters!
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I’ve used these organic pellets around a lot of baby squashes and even around baby cosmos after some were eaten. I was almost heartbroken because so
Much effort and time goes into growing them. Never agsin!
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