4) Keep weeds out of your bed as these compete for water and nutrients. Get your pumpkin swelling by feeding it weekly with a high potash fertiliser such as tomato feed. Keep the bottom of your pumpkin dry by placing a pile of straw under the fruit to prevent it touching the soil.

You may need to provide your fruit with some shading if its starts outgrowing its foliage.

You may get new growth on the foliage, this is normal simply prune out. If there is a danger of frost in the autumn wrap your fruits in fleece until harvest.

Don't forget to give it lots and lots of water!

Good luck!

 

	Current World Record - September 29th, 2007
	1,689lbs (Converts to: 766.1kg or 120.6 stone!)
	Holder: Joe Jutras, Rhode Island. USA.

	The heaviest pumpkin in the world!
	'Dill's Atlantic Giant'
	Using Atlantic Giant growers have produced monster pumpkins weighing over 600 lbs, and it holds the Canadian and American records for size and weight. Even if you don't want to produce a 'record breaker', it is excellent for delicious long standing pumpkins for pies, carving Jack O'Lanterns, etc.
	Giant Pumpkin - 'Gardening Express (Unknown Variety)'
	Our friends at Gardening Express are supplying giant pumpkin seeds from an unknown ''Elite Strain''. Intrigued? They even supplied a local curry house with a 668lb specimen for a mammoth giant pumpkin curry mêlée. Each pack of Special Giant Pumpkin Seeds contains 4 chunky seeds, specially selected from elite strains of Giant Pumpkins.
	Fun to Grow Blister Packs: The Giant Pumpkin Competition
	Who can grow the fattest pumpkin? This three blister pack has two pockets with pumpkin seeds and one with a tape measure. Record their growth on the measuring chart printed inside the pack. (This colourful collection with their cartoon characters displays the seed in transparent plastic blisters or capsules. Once again, there's an attractive mix of entertainment and education with Fun Facts on every pack).
	P & P Seed Co - World Record Seeds
	Their giant pumpkin seed comes from world record, Atlantic Giant pumpkin seed lines. The established lines have been champion pumpkin seed specimens entered by garden and pumpkin seed enthusiast at harvest festival contests and Guinness record world class giant pumpkin and vegetable seed events for several decades.
	Giant Pumpkin - 'Mammoth'
	Gigantic fruit! An orange-skinned variety with yellow flesh, which gardeners have grown to a weight of over 50kg. Recommended for exhibition. This variety has been trialled, tested and recommended by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany.