HIVE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2024 - the Pumpkin update

Updates from my balcony gardening project and my participation in the #HWC2024

Good news, I have a bunch of healthy pumpkin plants and I only kept those that looked the strongest and potted them into slightly larger pots. I also harvested my first small potato today and it made it on the dinner table. It was delicious.
I will be away on a movie set for the next 5 days and I have already instructed my wife how to deal with the pumpkin plants.

I left 4 plants in the original growing pot and replanted 4 into 3 larger pots.
I want to select the 3 strongest plants to be planted in the big planting pot I have bought for the purpose.

I got rid of a bunch of salad plants, unfortunately the weather was too hot and the salad really suffered from it. There are still a few plants left that now get more nutrients from the soil and a bigger portion of the water too.


I removed the dry leaves and discarded them after taking this photo.
It was such a warm and windy day and I had no hopes for some rain coming to cool us off. So I watered the plants myself again. The rain has been avoiding Balconia lately and it was hard to keep the garden in a good shape. Especially with both of us working and hardly being at home.

We now have fewer tomatoes, I had to get rid of most of them due to the blossom end rot they got. I hope that these tomatoes will actually make it into the next salad.

While attending to my potato plants I found this little fella. The potato made it straight to the kitchen where it got marinated in a bit of olive oil and salt and went on to the grill.

The other potato plants are also starting to loose their leaves and turn yellow brownish. This is a good sign that soon we will be able to harvest some awesome potatoes.
The big planting pot is now used as an intermediary composter because I know from my old days when I had a garden on the ground that the pumpkins love the soil high on nutrition. I am collecting smaller kitchen waste and ground coffee and everything I pick apart from the garden.
When the pumpkins are strong enough I am going to replant the 3 strongest ones into these big pots. The soil will be mixed with the soil from the composter.


If I can manage to guide the plants well on the balcony I could end up having a good chance for most pumpkins grown. I certainly will try for the quantity as well. In the category biggest pumpkin I just do not have the best conditions on the balcony.
Me being away for the next 2 weeks and only home for the weekends is also not ideal. But that's life and we gotta handle it as is comes.
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😃 Régen nézelődtem Hive-on, helyette inkább kertben matatok én is. Látom te is. 😀

Paradicsomodat, levelét és a cserepét elnézve, esélyes, hogy az edény szélén, alján a gyökérzet teljesen behálósodott és berohadt, nem is nagyon tudja felvenni szükséges tápanyagot. (szabad kertben is megy 2+ métert minden irányba) Egyébként a koktélparadicsomoknak gyökérzete is kisebb (fajtától függően), lehet az jobban bírná.

Ha adhatok ötletet: szamóca az elég strapabíró, simán áttelel erkélyen, edényben is (ha egy kicsit védve van), és folyton termő fajtáknál nem csak egyszer lehet szüretelni. Csak annak is elég nagy edény kell, mert fél év alatt gyökérzetével ugyanez történik. (kb. mint az a nagy fekete képen, de legalább zöld edények). Évente egyszer kiszedni, leszedni elhalt gyökérzetet, kicserélni vagy felturbózni földet, és el van.

Ha pedig nem vagy otthon 1 hétig, nem gond, csak nagy cserépalátét kell neki (nem az a lapos, szinte semmi víz nem marad benne fajta), amit teleöntesz vízzel, majd iszogat belőle annyit amennyi neki kell.

Uborkára vagy cukkinire nem gondoltál? (saját tapasztalat, de cukkini az minden évben ráver tökre, és nekem úgy tűnik, annak kisebb is gyökérzete töknél)

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You’d be away on a movie set?
Are you an actor?

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Actually that is my first profession. But on this movie, I will work as an assistant in the production department.

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You are having about as much luck as I with container gardening. My tomatoes have blight, my cucumbers have some sort of fungus and my squash refuse to actually produce anything and are now starting to have pale green leaves. My gooseberry I think I may have overwatered resulting in root rot which I'm really sad about as it is 2 years down...

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You did a very good job on your garden
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Thank you.

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Dein Balkon Garten macht sich super gut - Respekt! Ich hätte nie dran gedacht Salat oder Kartoffeln auf dem Balkon anzubauen. Vielleicht versuch ich das nächstes Jahr auch mal. Bei uns langst bisher nur zu Tomaten und ChiliPeppers. Auf die Ernte freue ich mich schon.

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