Have compared my long storing pumpkin with my seed packets and decided that it was this one. Marina di Chioggia. I got the seeds at Wisley but Franci seeds are available in lots of places. Googling these found this info on the seed (My packet is in...

  These were the sum total of the squashes I harvested from the big compost pile on the bank, under the tree, where I sowed the pumpkin plant given me by a friend earlier in the year. He didn't know the name of the variety. They are 6 inches...

  Too nice today to hang about indoors, especially as the weather is due to deteriorate tomorrow til who knows when. So I went early to the plot to start on the spud beds for next year. Whilst there I thought a lot about the layout of my plot and have...

  Back in July (19th) I tried some later planting of spuds to get a so-called Christmas dinner crop of new potatoes. They were Charlotte, from Mr Fothergills. There were 15 tubers and I put them in one of our deep beds in the Kitchen Garden here at...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skippysbackyard/4049891087/sizes/l/ How would you like an allotment here..... It is somehwre in N England and I pinched the link from Skippy's Vegetable Garden Blog