How to Grow, Cure and Store Pumpkins
Tips, Tricks
Pumpkins are the trademark fall vegetable, and stores love to cash in on this, but if you have the room to grow your own, you can benefit from the enhanced flavor and cost savings for months to come. Whatever the size of your growing space, with a little planning and maintenance, you can grow beautiful, productive pumpkins in your garden. In this video you'll learn the best positions for your pumpkin plants, how to protect them from pests, when and how to harvest the fruit. We also explain how to cure your pumpkins and what to avoid when storing them: If you love growing your own food, why not take a look at our online Garden Planner which is available from several major websites and seed suppliers: http://www.GrowVeg.com http://gardenplanner.motherearthnews.com http://gardenplanner.almanac.com and many more...
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I imagine pumpkins can get Blossom End Rot (BER) just like other squash plants might. Your suggestions? Thanks!
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Using a amino acid mixed with calcium (home made elements are best or NPK brand is great too) . Home made calcium with vinegar & egg shells . unconventionalfarmer website is good.
These things are getting very common and available in liquid or powder form.
Need to use both those specifically.
These elements mixed together become chelated then will be absorbed 1000 times as much in the ion channels of a plant, thus making its pectin internal fluid so mildews and spores in the environment can not absorb hardly at all and will not affect plants so much.
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I just pulled in 60 pumpkins from my first time effort. The deer had finally discovered them. The hot, dry summer caused them to mature quickly. I'm curing them in my 4 season room, and then to the cellar. I was told to use a fan during storage, which I will. If they are still good I'll sell them Oct. 15th. Out of curiosity, what's the going price for a good 15-20 lb. carver in Europe?
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great video
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I NEED TO BE SO COOL AND I NEED NEED NEED A REALLY COOL PUMPKIN PATCH IN MY YARD TO FEEL SO COOL INSIDE IN THE AUTUMN, THANK JAH NEED NEED NEED PUMKINS, GROW GROW GROW
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a great thing to use to put under a pumpkin or melons to separate it from the soil is Styrofoam plates. they are cheap and reuseable
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Thank you so much for all the advice, so helpful.
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What is the ratio of milk per water in the sprayer to control mildew?
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Dont mistake the leaves natural color design with powdery mildew.
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Thanks for the great information.
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Excellent video. Straight to the point and very thorough. It was the best one I have watched thus far and there were many before it. Thanks again and keep up the great work. It has helped me as I am a beginner and plan to go full green my family only eating what we grow and using only natural resources to help with the carbon foot print. So I have much to learn.
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Great and useful information, as usual. I , on the contrary am looking for a way to obtain many small (Hokkaido) pumpkins, that are beter suited for a household of 2. Any suggestions?
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Great dealing with mildew and growing and storing pumpkins!
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I've planted pumpkins for about four or five years and they've all grown great. The plants themselves grew great again this year, but they didn't produce any female flowers and consequently no actual pumpkins. Any idea why that might have happened?
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I love the wooden shed in the back ground
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Thanks for the informative video! I have 25 pumpkins this year and it's the first time I've grown them. I didn't realize that I had to cure them which explains why mine are already wilting. :( Oh well, now I know for next year's crop. Thanks again!
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Don't forget , the seed is edible too....
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