Tips on Growing Pumpkins

This page will offer Tips on Growing Pumpkins. We will use the Baby Pam for our sample crop. We will plant our Pumpkins in April of 2010. I am planting a type that can be used for making pies. I will show you how to do this once we harvest our pumpkins.

The Baby Pam is the best quality for pie pumpkin. It is a bright, deep orange skin and thick, tan handle with an attractive small pie pumpkins avg. 4 lb. Dry, sweet flesh is clearly the best of all varieties for pie. Days to maturity: 105

Pumpkins are a hot weather plant, but will survive a light frost. A plump orange pumpkin is the king of squashes during the Fall. They are harvested in the Fall but not grown in the Fall. The best way, but not the way I like, to begin a plant is to start growing the seeds inside before planting the transplant in the garden according to the Lunar Calendar. Pumpkins take only about seven days to germinate if kept in warm soil. You’ll need at least three weeks time before you can set pumpkins out on their own to grow.

The garden spot for your pumpkin should be in full sun, with very rich soil that drains very well. It is best to mulch the soil with organic fertilizer. You should use anything natural, like well-rotted manure, coffee grinds and eggshells.

Check back with us during the Spring/Summer of 2010 as we start our plants.

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