It has got cold here - really cold. At least we are in the village, so it doesn't get quite as cold as out on the farms, but even so we have had two nights of frost already and "they" are predicting a frost of minus 4 degrees Centigrade tonight.
As an aside, this is in sharp contrast to this time last year, when my diary notes temperatures of 18 degrees Centigrade during the day, the ability to sit outside for lunch, and the fact that we drove off to Spain for a few days without jackets. Currently Spain is under threat of snow, as is Corsica - climate change or the natural variation?
So the question is, what to do with the monster pumpkin I have grown this year?
The reason it is an issue, is that all the proper plants I had going did not produce any fruits at all. The monster is on a feral plant that grew up on the edge of the chicken run, germinating in about mid-July. This fruit did not set until mid-September and to my eye is not yet ripe, but it weighs a lot as I found when I cut it off the now dead plant this morning and moved it to the garden bench to dry off.
Will it be edible and sweet? Please let me know what you think!!
Bearing in mind the title of this blog, just how far are you from the Centrale Nucleaire du Chinon at Avoine? Perhaps not far enough, from looking at your pumpkin.
Did you know, by the way, that the restaurant at the Bauge Golf Course is called Pumpkins, because the man who runs it is Monsieur Potiron, which as evrybodoy knows, is the french for pumpkin!
Posted by: Roger | 16 November 2007 at 04:00 PM