how do you plant a pumpkin?

Question

My friend and I really want to plant a pumpkin but we don't know how ... any one want to help?

Answer 1

Take six to eight pumpkin seed and plant the seeds in a raised mount. Make sure you give plenty of space for the pumpkins to grow, like six to ten feet in any direction of the mound. When the pumpkin seeds sprout, cut out all seedlings except three. I mean use a sissors to cut the other seedlings, do not pull them out. Pulling will damage roots of the good three pumpkins.

Watch for insect damage, ants and worms love to attack pumpkin vines. Use a soap spray or sevin insect spray to control the insects.

Fertilize a couple of times with 10-10-10 general purpose fertilizer. Not too much... a couple of handfuls thrown about.

If you want larger pumpkins, remove more of the little pumpkins leaving only a few or one pumpkin on the vine.

If you are looking to make pies... plant the special canning pumpkins seeds. These are much smaller, about six inches around.

Never use seeds from a previous year unless you know you have a pure strain and not a hybrid. You can grow pumpkins that taste like squash. Oh, keep the squash away from pie pumpkins...

Answer 2

Try this... I never grew pumpkins before but got alot of sunflowrers. Buy a packet of pumpkin seeds from your local store. Find a place that has a lot of space, that won't interfere and has a lot of sun. Dig a hole about 6 inches deep and plant all the seeds in the same place. Cover it up and water twice a day and add Miracle grow to your water. Do this for about a month and let me know what kind of pumpkins you get!!!

Answer 3

It's too late now, next year you can just throw some pumpkin seed in the ground and they do pretty well with some water and sun.

Case in point-I had some seeds, thought they were all flower seeds. There must have been a rogue pumpkin seed left over from a pumpkin I bought last fall in there because I have a pumpkin plant growing in my flower bed with a huge pumpkin on it now! I thought it was zucinni, so I harvested a few early on, but noticed one that kept growing and growing...and growing!

Answer 4

Dig a hole, plant seeds, water and wait. If you're wanting Giant pumpkins then that's another story and quite long and involved. Google search "How to grow Giant pumpkins". Depending on variety I'm talking several hundred pound pumpkins!

Answer 5

Last year when my family threw out my pumpkin, we threw it into the compost pile. Soon, a pumpkin vine began to grow from the pumpkin! So just take apumpkin, throw it on the ground, and wait for it to rot and grow. Warning: My pumpkin plant started to take over the yard. It's vines would wrap around trees and branchs, pulling tiny and weak trees down, so grow the pumpkins in an area with not trees. Have fun!!! :)

Answer 6

You need plenty of room as the plants grow very big. Buy a pumpkin seed from a gardening shop. Dig plenty of well rotted manure into the soil and plant the seed in the middle. Keep well watered and leave to grow.

Answer 7

If it was me and you buy a pumpkin this year, just save some of the seeds and plant in the garden next spring. Just till up the ground and a few of them in the ground under a mound, personally I would do a couple of mounds to ensure they grow. You can always pull up if to many grow from same hill.

Answer 8

Dig a hole slightly larger than the pumpkin, drop the pumpkin in the hole, cover with dirt. Did I mention use a shovel?

Answer 9

you buy pumpkins seeds . plant it in a soil then put fertilizer in it if you want to . then water it everyday if you have to . then wait for it to grow . or just buy a pumpkin.

Answer 10

Make sure the plant is getting enough water, probably not the problem. Sometimes squash, or at least zucchini will not produce a fully ripe fruit until the season progresses, so maybe the plant just needs to mature a bit more. Good luck!