Love your channel. Will you be collecting your flower seeds?

Why are you not harvesting your pumpkins now? I would also suggest that the ones that have been nibbled on harvest them and cut out the bad places you can share with the little critters. You can also collect the seeds for next year. Don’t give up you’ve done so well for your first year.

Make a garlic repellent and spray the pumpkins, totally harmless and the squirrels hate it.

I've not finished the video , so you may have already done what I'm about to suggest. But pick your pumpkins, at least the ones close to being harvested. Pick them with a generous length of vine attached, take them home and put them in a dry sunny, warm space and they'll finish ripening up. They may not have as long a storage capacity but you will still at least get to enjoy your pumpkins. The greenhouse is another good storage place for now, especially if you close the doors. Hoping you get at least a few for yourself.

Happy birthday Seren 🎉❤

So sad about those pumpkins. But you still have some pretty impressive ones there. Enjoyed your video as usual. Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa.

Wow! It’s an absolute jungle! Everything has grown sooo well!! It looks amazing 💚

I really enjoyed this episode. Great allotment drama. 😂 Made me a bit anxious though. I'm going to have to go and harvest my Kuri and Crown Prince tomorrow I think. I reckon they will finish ripening on a sunny window. We don't actually have any squirrels at our allotments. Think there are too few trees - it's basically just an open field. I've seen rats though. Having said that I will probably go to the plot tomorrow now to find big holes gnawed into the squash. Also there's some cold nights coming in a few days. We are predicted just 4°c where we are on Thursday night. That will slow everything down or finish some plants off completely no doubt. So there goes the hope for a late summer. 😭

I feel your pain. This year I have had rust on the garlic, blight on spuds and tomatoes, caterpillars on the brassicas, rust just arriving on the leeks, pigeons decimating lettuces and swedes, slugs and snails decimating everything and to top it all, I went to the plot today to harvest the one success story, the sweetcorn and arrived to find that 50% of them had been eaten by either pigeons or squirrels. It's just one of those years. 🤣

Sorry about ur pumkins❤

Happy Birthday!

I’ve put those organza bags on my peppers this year to stop the holes, fingers crossed it seems to have worked. It is very disheartening to see all your hard work eaten by wildlife but you’ll be better prepared next year x

Hi as a ex nhs and army mt please be careful when bending down try to crouch and dont dig in trainers a bad foot split is hard to heal not having a go just concerned about health and safety as always happy gardening Richardx ps you should consider getting chickens very comical

Sprinkle your pumpkins with the hottest curry powder you can find. you will need to do it after rain. Happy Birthday

I feel for you. I’ve suffered rodent damage this week, not on the pumpkins yet. Eeep…need to check them again. The mesh will help, I’m sure. If socks and organza bags can protect sweetcorn, surely this will work for you. Hope so! It was quite sweet when you said archway is a bit shorter……it’s more a pumpkin crawl space now. 😅

Naughty sassy squirrel! So bold 🐿(please accept this chipmunk emoji as there are no squirrel ones!) My zucchini suffered the same fate this week. * *shakes fist* * Happy Birthday Seren! 🎂 Hope it's wonderful!

After watching your pumpkins being eaten I rushed outside and made a big wire cage over the only large one I've managed to grow (for my autistic grandson, who will be so upset if it gets eaten) as I definitely have a visiting squirrel. So sorry about yours though Seren. It's so easy to grow vegetables but extremely hard to protect them! Your plot looks beautiful 😊

Would a squirel feeder with pumpkin seeds in it, as a nice easy snack for them, help keep them away from your pumpkins?

Would a scarecrow work or bells chimes a owl figurine you can buy 😊

I sprinkle cinnamon over and around my plants when I want to keep animals away. It irritates their little noses when they go to sniff it. I sometimes mix cayenne pepper in for a stronger kick. Just reapply after a rain.

I’m not certain if the variety matters, but the pumpkins I grow can be brought in with a lot of green - they ripen in the house off the vine, same as a tomato! For squash, I bring them in too, when they’re threatened by frost or animals. Unripe squash is a very nice substitute for mashed potatoes. No milk! Just butter. Bring your bitten squashes home to teach those rascals they’ll get nothing from YOUR plot, NOTHING! Then cut off the bad parts, save the seeds, and squeeze out a meal from then anyway. (Squash cupcakes is very good, use a carrot cake recipe. It’s your Vitamin A.) Take those orange mini pumpkins home NOW. And your flowers are fantastic, gather them too. ‘‘Tis the season!! Cold temps are coming.

Happy Birthday, Seren!🎉🎂🎈🌞

That pumpkin isn't lost if you still want it. You can eat and cook young ones like using a courgette. It's also good for soups, curries and noodle sauces. Or just turn it into stock if you make your own.

Harvest time in the garden means critters actively taking what they want to store for winter (either in their nests or in their bellies!). The sunflowers were wonderful while they lasted!🌻😍

You can get some magnets and some screening to make a screen door type thing for the greenhouse..it will at least keep those squirrles out hopefully.. Happy Birthday Next Week Seren!!!

Spend the next 11 months finding freezer baskets, line with chicken wire, allso old wire basket racks, now have a whole lot, shame I live in New Zealand or you could have them, my problem species are sparrow's, plus a few chaff finch and yellow hammer.

U can use chicken wire or make a spicy spray and spray the pumpkins. I did a thing called critter ridder once and it worked. It's a granules you sprinkle around the things you don't want them to eat. There's like cinnamon and other things they hate in there. The squirrels and chipmunks in my pumpkin patch have eaten so many of mine too 😢😂

My pumpkins didn’t make it this year. I’ll go out and buy them to place pe around the yard for my squirrels to eat🤣😂

If an old greenhouse comes up on market place you could use it as a pumpkin cage to grow inside of, putting small wire mesh where the panels would usually go.

I know this may sound a bit gross...but if you have a cat, save the used litter and sprinkle it around your plot. Mice and squirrels will stay away! My sister actually had to do this to keep them from eating the wiring in her car(of all things!), and it worked!! Your plot neighbors may not appreciate it though 😅Its just a thought lol. Also peppermint, garlic, and catnip are said to keep them away. But plant these in containers as I'm sure you'll know these spread...and will take over. Good luck and have a wonderful Birthday 🎉❤

Cut the muched bit out of the orange ones if you think their ripe..

Qld blue skin might to tough for the squirrels...or maybe they don't like the taste.. They have a very hard skin...I hate peeling them In Australia we don't have squirrels...!!!!

Have a happy birthday!🎉

What so you cook with the paprika peppers?

Maybe you could make little cages out of aluminum window screen mesh? I think you can buy it by the roll

After just watching Freedom Forest and squirrels ate their corn and now your pumpkins Seren, I am so glad we don’t have squirrels even tho I think they are cutest things ever. They are so destructive. ❤️

A shame about the Pumpkins, maybe gather now what You can. As for next Week 🎉 Happy Birthday in advance 🎉 Enjoy Your birthday and time With Family and Friends 🎉 🎂🍾🥂

We have squirrels that eat my sunflowers

I don’t know anything about allotments (although i would love one at some point just don’t know about how to get one ) but regarding the squirrels would it be worth putting out a squirrels feeder that’s easy for them to access or throw squirrels seeds over the fence behind your plot .. I feed mine so they leave my mini garden alone 🤷🏼‍♀️

Pick any pumpkin that is full sized/near ripe. It might not be quite a sweet or store for as long but it will still be edible.

I think that’s definitely a rat judging by the flesh left behind

Oh, Seren 🥺 those bloody squirrels! I put a pumpkin out on our balcony after Halloween once. In about a day, we had achain saw massacre happening out there. I heard the choppety-choppety sounds through the door. When I looked out, the balcony was covered on orange goo😮 Seeds were gone, and the squirrels looked super happy.. Better luck next year 🤞🤞🤞

Some squashes ripen well off of the vine, so it might be worth picking them and taking them home to fully ripen rather than leaving to the squirrel

Harvest them all now, with as much stem as you can - they ripen beautifully indoors - i keep mine under the bed!

I know how much you love wildlife, so maybe it'll help to reframe it to think how you're helping to feed the animals?

🎼🎶 Happy 🎁 Birthday🎈to🌞you🎵Seren🎂🎶

Caught in the act 😂 little rascals 🐿️🐿️🐿️

I would pick the other pumpkins. You deserve them much more than the squirrels etc. They'll continue to ripen once picked ❤

Pick your pumpkins and take them home to harden in the sun

Tufty Fluffytail is up in that tree, smacking his lips and laughing at you.