Success Growing Backyard Pumpkins - five tips

Tour our Pumpkin Patch. The kids show off their Big Max,Lumina and Jack Be Little Pumkins. Background music by Scott Nygaard "Bury Me Beneath the Willow"

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• pumpkins
• VF-11
• growing pumpkins
• watering pumpkins

[ytbluegrass]

@polarcupcheck

I have found that when the soil is compacted, the pants remain small, do not flower well, and have trouble producing pumpkins of any size. Leaves tend to turn yellow as the season progresses anyway (at least for me).

It may help to dig down into the bottom of your container (assuming it is an open-bottom planter) and use a spading fork to break up the soil and allow for better water penetration. We also tried burying sections of the plant as it grew across the planting bed.

[ytbluegrass]

@halo3rocks..from our experience, and my research, you will have healthier & larger plants if you grow them in raised beds with loose soil. I'm talking about a backyard garden here. If you have a large area that is well amended & has loose soil then go ahead and plant your pumpkins there. Our backyard is full of clay soil which is tight and does not contain much organic matter. After we built our raised beds our pumpkins, and all of our veggies do very well. Good luck!

[creecaligirl]

best pumpkin video evar! good job!

[ytbluegrass]

@creecaligirl Thanks. We are getting ready to plant pumpkins again this year. Hopefully we will do a video on planting pumpkins.

[soxnes]

just remember that pumpkins cross breed real easyily so dont put differenct squash in unless u want to have some mix breed great video though

[ytbluegrass]

@soxnes We're just happy to have pumpkins growing! A little cross-breeding would be ok. We're not growing them for competition, mostly for Halloween.

[Kueck10893]

Good choice of music! Scott's a new bluegrass favorite of mine.

[xoxSandyxox1976]

Thanks for the great info! But how do we get the bees for pollenating?

[dave4854]

I don't think pumpkins cross breed til the second year and that's if you use the seeds out of the squash or pumpkins that were grown side by side.

[Polarcupcheck]

@ytbluegrass What has happened when the soil was too compact? Did the leaves yellow?

I've tried to grow them in large containers, and some containers developed mud at the bottom, and my plants yellowed and died. Heavy rain that year. However, I wonder if the soil was too compact as well. Because I used Jungle Growth (a fairly loose potting mixture), and achieved my best results, even though a fungus killed it.

[Polarcupcheck]

@freedomintheus Those white spots killed my best shot at a pumpkin.

[lemkelegion]

IM GONNA GROWN PUMPKINS IN JULY

[halo3rocks100123]

do i have to make beds? can i just use normal soil?

[goldss123]

thinks for the video