home make pumpkin container

Great idea. Am I too late to start growing pumpkin seeds? Just thinking....if I could start them off at home now we could grow them on at the school gardening club in September :-) and would they be big enough for october without any cover, we don't have a school greenhouse to boost them on?

Hi Joannie,
This is all new to me so i've just read the packet,last sow out doors was may, to harvest in september, sorry! but i need not start mine until late june, so i hope something grows, i have told my grandchildren they may no be very big, but you kids they just love to plant, and i cant say NO.

Joannie,
I should learn to prove read before i submit, my spelling is rubbish.Sorrrrry

That's ok, I actually sent a message to somebody in America this morning referring to the bad summer weather thinking they lived in the west midlands! He'll think I'm going mad... could be right :-)

I really like this, and what you're doing for the children, Pepperpot. Good Luck with them.

Thanks David,
They can be hard work if i hav'nt got something for them to do in the garden, because they have no garden, they live in a ground floor flat, So i always try to find things for them to do when the come, Which is every
Saturday, If the weather is bad we make plaster mouldings and badges,
and paint them.This a messy job but fun. but they would rather be outside. there ages are 9yrs,5 and 3

here's an idea 4U, Pepperpot, for all 3 children - Cress Caterpilllars! You need to save egg boxes, and cut into strips of 3 or 4. The children paint their strips with poster paint in green. (this paint drys quickly, depending on how soggy they get, lol, but dry quickly near or on a radiator). If you use cardboard eggboxes, line with cling film, b4 filling with damp toilet paper, kitchen paper, or cotton wool. Sprinkle on some cress seed (as little as 29p a packet from outlets such as Lidl). I usually have a box of craft materials, which includes coloured pipe cleaners and wiggly eyes ( as little as £2 from outlets such as "Stationery Box"). It is fun to add details such as antennae and eyes, also black spots on the green. You can complete the whole caterpillar in a morning or afternoon, place on a light windowsill, and, by the next Saturday, your grandchildren should have a furry, strokeable, caterpillar, ready for egg and cress sannies!! I've done this one b4 on a rainy day, and with gr8 success (can't find the pics right now). Hope you like this! X

Great Ideal David,
I shall get some egg boxs, and cress seed, I also have acraft box full of
bits and bobs, and paints, so thats something i can do with them, next weekend. Manythanks x

What a great idea.