December extra!

Visitors to the Walled Garden watched our Monster pumpkin grow over the summer, and then be a highlight of our Halloween festivities - its final weight was 17kg. By mid-December it was ripe enough to eat and gardener volunteer Penny donned surgical mask and gloves to perform the necessary surgery. Some of the chunks went home with volunteers but more than half were turned into soup for the Long Table, by gardener volunteer Ruth. We saved the seeds, of course.

Marion H.