How do I grow pumpkins?

Question

I have loads of seeds left from my pumpkins and want to grow some for next year. When is the best time to plant the seeds?

Answer 1

At the end of next spring, put the pumpkin seeds into a propergator, when the seeds have started to grow and are about 2inches high, put them into pots, and keep them in your greenhouse for a few weeks till they are bigger. They love water so keep them well watered through the summer, feed them every now and then with grow more, or what a friend of mine did was feed his on chicken pellets,he watered the pellets into the ground and had some brill pumpkins, you need to thin them out or you will have too many and they will be small..

Answer 2

It takes a huge amount of space to grow one pumpkin. So if you grow 100 pumpkins it will take an unusually large space. It would just be easier to buy the pumpkins, although it would cost a lot of money maybe about 200 - 300 dollars.

Answer 3

Pumpkins are one vegetable that I don't usually start indoors; my seedlings quickly outgrow their pots and I don't have enough space for them. Instead, I plant them directly outside as soon as all frosts have passed, usually May in the upper Midwest. I mound up soil into a hill about a foot in diameter. Mounds should be at least 3 feet apart in rows that far apart -- pumpkins take up space, and their vines are very vigorous. Plant 6-8 seeds in each hill. Don't plant the seeds too deeply -- 1/2 inch of dirt over the seed is fine. Water well, and make sure to keep them watered over the summer. Mulching with straw around the plant bases helps retain water, keeps the soil from baking in the summer, and keeps weed growth low. We usually put a tall stake or stick next to each mound so we know where to water once the vines take off and you have a sea of big green leaves.

Pests that we have to contend with around here are cucumber beetles (little yellow bugs with black stripes or spots on their backs). They munch on pumpkin vines and stems, and also spread disease. We dust with diatomaceous earth, which is a white powder made of the crushed bodies of little diatoms. Their tiny bodies are hard and spiky and damage insects and grubs who crawl over them or attempt to feed on them, while not poisoning arbitrarily like an insecticide would. You can find it at most garden stores. You do have to re-dust after rain.

If you want bigger pumpkins, once the blossoms have been fertilized and you have little pumpkins forming, pick all of them off the vine except one. All of that plant's energy will go into producing that one pumpkin. Otherwise, you can expect to get several small- to-medium-sized pumpkins per vine. We pick in October, once the vines dry out and the pumpkin naturally breaks off the vine at the stem.

Answer 4

leave the seeds to dry out for a couple of weeks then store them until April next year then plant 1 seed in to a small pot with good compost water and put in a light warm place like the greenhouse or windowsill and leave to grow plant out into your garden in June top tip pumpkin like lots of water plus a couple of cans of bitter a week

Answer 5

Collect seeds and when dry plant a few into pots until the grow to about 3/4inches then carefully replant in garden you can do this at anytime of the year, but they will only start to flourish about june/july dont overwater them, they are very easy to grow

Answer 6

This time of year is fine. Plant them indoors first then move them out when it gets warmer, or when they outgrow their pots. Just keep avids off, I think they can handle colder weather fine.

Good Luck!

Answer 7

start them indoors in March so they will be ready to plant outside in the middle of May. My son started some in April, and we found that they weren't ready in time for the first frost

Answer 8

to cold now..plant next year april may..keep warm and plant out after danger of frosts has gone.

Answer 9

june july

Answer 10

collect all leftover pumpkins from last halloween and sow the seeds....