A Banach space E has the Grothendieck property if every (linear bounded) operator from E into c0 is weakly compact. It is proved that, for an integer k > 1, every k-homogeneous polynomial from E into c0 is weakly compact if and only if the space P(kE) of scalar valued polynomials on E is reflexive. This is equivalent to the symmetric k-fold projective tensor product of E (i.e., the predual of P...