Dear gardeners in my last update about our balcony garden eleven days ago I announced my participation in the HIVE 2024 World Pumpkin Championship. These are the very first HIVE world championships and I am proud to present:

My pumpkins

Yesterday I finally had the time to get started with my pumpkin project. I hope I can catch up the time I hesitated. I planted 12-26 seeds on 6 spots in this growing kit and hope I can get the seeds to grow. The challenge on the balcony will be to guide the plant in the right direction. Ideally I can have 2-3 plants growing from my large pot into many smaller ones. I listened to @beeber who invited me to this challenge and planted butternut pumpkin seeds. These are the most robust when it comes to growing them on a balcony.

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Certainly it will be a tough challenge to go for the biggest pumpkin, but maybe I can still go for the most pumpkins harvested or the most beautiful pumpkin of them all. I hope my followiers will help me with the latter.

I purchased a little growing kit and planted the seeds into some normal gardening soil. I hope they begin to sprout within the next 10-14 days and then I can take the 3 strongest and pot them in the large pot I bought for this purpose.

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How do you like my gloves? I think they have a seventies vibe to them. All flowers!
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This is how my pumpkins look right now after 24 hours of planting them.
Nothing changed from the outside.

The rest of the garden

is in a changing state. I planted some new seeds in the insect flower hotel, and I planted a few basil seeds next to the tomatoes.
The potatoe plants are growing like crazy and some start to loose their flowers. Soon the eraly harvest for potatoes will be on. I guess another 4-6 weeks.
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The salad beads look sad right now but in a few weeks this will be an entirely different picture again.
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The pepper will grow twice its size in the next 14 days and will land in the salad.
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The random bee flower meadow turned out beautiful.
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I tested on of the carrots and it was tiny but tasted like a carrot. I gues this will take a while and they also won't get that big. The pot is just to small.
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The potato jungle is growing. I really have high hopes on the harvest here.

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The giant 35 liter pot that will hold the butternut plants. It was a real bargain and I could buy it for sub 10€.

You want to be a champion too?

All you have to do is start your HIVE pumpkin project and mention the account: @hive-world-champ
Check out the rules in the post by der-prophet:
Announcement of HIVE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Thanks to everyone reading and following my garden updates. I will be back, with pumpkin news as soon as I have something to report.
I would be thrilled if there where more pumpkin champions out there, to share their pumpkin adventures.
Hope you enjoyed this hive garden update and thanks again for your attention!
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