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TROMBONCINO FANTASTICO

We love reading the magazine, and my daughter Milly has had a huge amount of fun planting our free seeds.

This year we tried growing ‘Tromboncino’ squash, not really knowing what to expect. We were amazed by the success of our efforts and we've been living off the results for months! We had so many we decided to leave a couple on the plants to see if we could get any taller than Milly, and we just about managed it with our best effort standing at 4ft 3in.

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