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Pumpkins in pots

sunnysarahsunnysarah Posts: 62
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Hi I grew some pumpkins last year with some sucess but was wondering if there are any small varities that can be grown in pots?

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391

    Hi sunnysarah, there is a compact F1 variety I grow called 'Summer Ball' which produces lots of tasty small yellow pumpkins (up to 6" diameter) which can also be picked young and used as courgettes.  It's a prolific cropper.  I've not tried it in a pot but as it doesn't produce long trailing vines and all of the fruit come from the short centre stem I think it would grow ok in a large pot (say 15" diameter or more.)  T&M and Suttons (amongst others) have seeds for this one.

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  • sunnysarahsunnysarah Posts: 62
    Thank you, i shall have a look
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