I have recently carved my first halloween pumpkin (sheltered life i know!) but now addicted to carving them... i have seeds from them left over and wondering how should i plant them and look after them so i can grow my own?
2006-10-30 02:34:56 · 8 answers · asked by Babything 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
is this a question or you are inspiring some thing else??
2006-10-30 02:47:36 · answer #1 · answered by dan d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure to plant them early. Pumpkins take about 80-120 days to grow most the time. You want the pumpkins to reach about full size come about the first of October, so around the beginning to middle of April is a good time to plant them. Make sure you give the vine plenty of room to grow. About an 8' x 8' or 10' x 10' section is how much room you will want to leave. Plant the seeds about 1-2" deep with about 3-4 seeds together in a mound. Once the seeds have sprouted out of the ground straw around the vine to help keep the weeds down. If you want the pumpkin to grow extra large reduce the vine to one pumpkin and cover just the pumpkin with a cloth or something to shield it from the sun. The sun hardens the rine restricting it's growth, if the rine is shielded from the sun it stays soft and will grow larger.
2006-10-30 02:43:32 · answer #2 · answered by devilishblueyes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put the seeds on kitchen paper place on a window sill & let them dry out sow in a plastic tray using the peat out of a grow bag next March plant in the garden when about 3 inches high or when they have 2 leaves that are 1 inch diameter or dry out & place on a tray shake a little salt on them & roast in the oven for about 50 mins allow to cool & eat them they taste pretty good. PS dont count the first leaves that sprout when they first apear those are the primary leaves
2006-10-30 02:59:05 · answer #3 · answered by Nev W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't do anything with them at the moment other than keep them dry in a paper bag. Sow in a 4 inch pot in a greenhouse in the Spring and plant out when the frost has past.
Best wishes,
James
2006-10-30 08:35:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
scrape the edge off each side plant pointed end up when 1st leaf appear squeeze the seed , indoors for 1st 2wks only takes 6wks to grow to grow very large choose atlantic giant seed
2006-10-30 10:02:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And any seeds you don't plant bake in a hot oven for about 10-15 mins... Lovely snack when they've dried out...
2006-10-30 02:46:44 · answer #6 · answered by nert 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.sadako.com/pumpkin/growing.html
Answer at the following link.
2006-10-30 02:38:11 · answer #7 · answered by richard_beckham2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure the slugs don't get 'em. Little buggers munched all mine.
2006-10-30 02:36:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋