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Pumpkins are the trademark fall vegetable, and stores love to cash in on this, but if you have the room to grow your own, you can benefit from the enhanced flavor and cost savings for months to come.
Whatever the size of your growing space, with a little planning and maintenance, you can grow beautiful, productive pumpkins in your garden.
In this video you’ll learn the best positions for your pumpkin plants, how to protect them from pests, when and how to harvest the fruit. We also explain how to cure your pumpkins and what to avoid when storing them:
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Jeez, who would have known that it takes so much to grow a pumpkin. I just stuck some seeds in the soil, left it to its own and it provided me and my family with so much pumpkin that we had to give much to the neighbors and friends. Mind you, New Zealand is a great place to grow pumpkin without much ado. They just grow of their own accord and a little mildew on the leaves did not stifle any growth either. Blessed is the ignorant. 🙂 Greetings, Rita
Another benefit to a mulching garden (old chopped up leaves, composted wood chips etc): You don't have to worry about soil contact.
Nice tips! Thanks so so much! #HealthyPumkins
I have a question…. I am growing pumpkins. Naively thought my garden space was big enough. So I did what I do to my tomatoes…I pruned them. I think this was a no no as my blooms started closing and dropping off. Is there some way I can fix this?
Awesome video but why wouldn't you show how to grow them first?
Great video and information.
We cut the pumpkin off the vine leaving a good amount of stem. When you showed storing the pumpkin, the stem was very short. At what point do you cut the stem so short?
How do you know if your pumpkins are getting too much water or not enough?
Brill, thanks a big thumbs up from me!
Thanks for the tips. Last autumn we had a snap frost one month before the expected first frost date. Some pumpkins were write offs, but some still held for 3 months before those spots appeared on the skin. Maybe if I wiped with oil, they might have stored longer.
Thanks again, this season I hope will be more vigilant about frost.
Thanks, now I will make some nice stews, sauces, and pies.
I've been searching high and low and I can't get an answer. What do you know about cantaloupe? My plants look amazing. Green and Lush leaves. I only this week had a little problem with yellowing leaves at the base of the plants because of heavy rain we had. But the plants are not flowering and the vines are extremely long. If I could untangle them probably would be in some cases as big as 15 feet long. The problem is I haven't seen any flowering yet. What am I doing wrong? Thank you
Milk with water or just milk.
I accidentally "fully" cut the vine form a nearly mature pumpkin. Can that be put in the dirt and save the pumpkin the same as one that is still partially attached or is all lost? Thank you, great video.
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.
Question, if we don’t have any good sunny windows, can pumpkins be cured outside? Or is this too hot? Or maybe with a shade cloth?
Can I plant a seed in October and pick it next year? Want some big pumpkins to carve 😀
Really interesting and helpful. Thank you ❤
i've germinated some small sugar pumpkin seeds but haven't thought far enough as to where to plant them. i have a lot of relatively large garden pots (diameter 30-40cm, 40cm deep), would this be sufficient room for them to grow? i don't own the garden i am using so unfortunately cannot build beds or dig up the grass lawm
Awesome. Thanks brother!
Xnks alot fr you message
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Wow! I've never heard of curing pumpkins! Thanks.
Thanks I am watching this in May 2022. Just planted out my baby pumpkin plants so was refreshing my memory on keeping them healthy. I don't grow too many, so I immediately cut up and blanch pumpkin, storing the now blanched chunks in the freezer, and the seeds are roasted to enjoy as harvested. So I don't cure, but you can freeze pumpkin if anyone didn't know, so long as you scoop it out and peel just the thin outer skin and cut the thick skin into chunks and blanch in boiling water first. I then take from the freezer and roast, as you showed in the video there, or I might put smaller chunks in stew, or make into soup, or mash and puree into pumpkin pie with nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, sugar, and concentrated milk.
Where should i store my punkin if i want touse it for punkin pie etc? Thank u for urvideo
Great video! For the milk and water solution that prevents and helps treat mildew on the leaves, what is the ratio of milk to water that I should be using? Also does this work on mildew on other vegetable leaves too (ie. Squash, zucchini etc)?
this is awesome