How to Start Your Own Backyard Pumpkin Patch - Summer 2017 - Episode 1 

I have been growing pumpkins for years now. I too have those cucumber beetles, squash bugs, and the vine borers. I am not sure if your aware or not, but the 3 varieties that you showed in the video will not necessarily pollinate each other. Let me explain. The Connecticut field pumpkin is a pepo variety and cannot pollinate a different variety that is not pepo. The other two varieties are maxima varieties and they can pollinate each other but not the pepo variety. So in other words, Pepo to Pepo and Maxima to Maxima.

2 years ago I threw our old pumpkins to the chickens and the next summer we had a huge pumpking patch. I did nothing to it just let it do its thing.

At my house we have been putting our old pumpkins on the bottom of our trees for a while now, and the pumpkins just grow from there. Of course we help by watering them, but other than that we don’t really use a strategy. By the fall we get a lot of pumpkins and now we don’t really have to go to the Pumpkin patch anymore. It’s pretty cool because we get a lot of different types of pumpkins.

My subdivision was built over an old pumpkin patch. Our home was new construction but the builder did a poor job on the lawn. It was nothing but weeds but I also noticed squash looking leaves on some of them. They turned out to be pumpkins. They would grow quickly but the landscaping guys would mow them over. They grew easy peasy.

This is the first year I’m going to grow pumpkins, I’m getting some great tips from these videos!

THANK YOU FOR THAT VIDEO, I'VE BEEN WANTING TO GROW PUMPKINS ON SHORT GRASS JUST LIKE YOU DID, BUT SOMEONE TOLD ME IT WOULD'NT WORK AND NOW I KNOW IT WILL WORK! THANKS AGAIN! GOD BLESS

Thank you for not wasting time!!!!

Thank you! I've been living in El Salvador for 10 years now and I have missed pumpkins so much... This year I'm finally going to try to grow my own. Your video is so great!

This year I am growing pumpkins using cinder blocks. I just added some half composted tree leaves and grass clippings into the cinder block "mini raised bed" for each pumpkin plant. The pumpkin plants seem to be doing fine so far. I also added some cured quail manure to the top.

We are planning a huge pumpkin patch. This helped us.

Brilliant! So much pumpkin knowledge, thank you so much! love your channel :)

You are such a good teacher!

That claw is a great garden tool breaks up much..great work out

Allright, allright. Nice vid.

After watching this I can't wait for Halloween...Its only 5.5 Months away

Cheers ✅blessings from Australia

I’m new here this is the first video which thank you for sharing but I’m struggling to focus Bc I’m obsessed with your grass 😄😄😄 please have / tag a video about how you grew it & tips please ! Lol I’m heading over to browse after this

I been using blac kow myself.

I bought different pumpkins ,saved the seeds ,now sprouted and planted out. Can’t wait for results in 2-3 maths. time.

It looked like you planted on only half of the mound. Did you plant another type on the other side?

Hi Friend. I see that you have a lot of grass where you are planting the pumpkins. I plant pumpkins in the past in my lower raise beds and let the vines grow out on the grass. The problem I had in my area is that I could not mow the grass where the pumpkins developed, and by the time the pumpkins are ready to harvest,the grass are allready knee hight and I can’t see where the pumpkins are and afraid of snakes. I think next time when put the seeds in the ground, I am going to spray herbicide to kill off the grass first.

This is great advice for first timers, however I challenge you to make your own compost next time.

I dont know if you will see this comment since this is an older video but I have a pumpkin mound with 2 plants in my garden, theyre very healthy looking but I was wondering if you have to bury the vines as they grow in order to get fruit? my garden is rocks not yard (no dirt except the mount itself)

i wonder how deep the taproot is ... amending the soil for that depth might be of interest.

Six seeds in the packet, yikes! I had great success picking up nice pumpkins on the side of the road after Halloween and Thanksgiving. They were still firm, had great seeds for roasting, and since they seemed to be hardy, saved some seeds and grew them last year.

I noticed that you only planted seeds on one side of the mound. Did you plant another pumpkin on the other side of the mound?

Fun

now i have a question i bought the burpee pumpkin jack o lantern seeds and was wondering if its a good brand because i bought some but havent planted them yet and was wondering if these grow better than other brands

I have i hill I’m my back yard last November I threw one of the pumpkins I had for Halloween on the hill and joked “ maybe I’ll grow a pumpkin patch” it’s July and I have tons of yellow flowers and full grown pumpkins EVERYWHERE 😂 now I want to take care of them any tips?!

I need help with squash bugs/stink bugs/etc. ruins the whole areas and crops?

Ive heard to put seed in standing up not on its side. If its on its side water will sit on it,which can ruin the seed.

I live in Ohio and the native soil is great

When do you start planting them

Well I didn’t do any of what you said to do. When my October 2021 pumpkin began to get soft, I just put the whole uncut pumpkin in my fence line which is full of pine needles. And presto, we have pumpkin plants 🌱 popping up. So, now we’re just watering it ( date 5-16-2022 ) Any comments on type of fertilizer to use⁉️or other type of care😇

1st year too for me but I am wanting to grow just 1 single pumpkin how do I do that

How large were your mounds (between 1-18 ft?) and how far apart? I'm such a newbie Id really appreciate any feedback 🎃 thank you!

Can you grow pumpkins in an area that has a slight incline? I’ve heard this helps with keeping moisture off the pumpkins so that they’re not sitting in them and getting “mushy.”

Not sure what I am doing wrong because I have tried so hard ! I have never seen squash beetles but vine bore worms that kill the plant is my problem. Then for some reason I guess the bee's are not pollinating because I will see a small pumpkin then it falls off . I have 6 grandkids so I would be so excited to have a pumpkin patch! We have plenty of room and this is my 4th year no pumpkins. 😥😥

I'm a new subscriber!

what growing zone are you in?

I see one of the manure's is called Black Kow cow manure, what kind of manure is the yellow bag I am unable to read it.

Pumpkins. A few ladies in my town started a community garden in 2015. In the Autumn, I suggested that we collect all the leaves we could to work into the soil as it was very hard, and difficult to work. In the Spring of 2016, I noticed some volunteer melon or squash plants where someone had dumped their leaves and garden wastes. I transplanted 4 of the plants. By summer, I noticed that they were some kind of yellow/orange pumpkin. I know nothing about raising pumpkin. They bore several pumpkins, but rotted because no one picked them. OK fine. Since I am the world's greatest seed-saver, I collected 20 or so seeds. I planted about about 10 seeds, 20 inches apart, next to a row of butternut squash, also from seeds I saved. Wow! the plants are humongous. the vines of the pumpkin and the squash are now entangled into each other. I didn't know that they would grow so large. Some of the pumpkin are turning orange, as if close to ripening. I thought that they didn't ripen until Autumn. Next to the squash row, I planted some pickling cucumbers in hopes that they would grow up a concrete mesh trellis. Some of the cucumber seeds germinated, and I had 2 nice plants. Next to my cucumbers is a volunteer pumpkin which I didn't have the heart to remove. The "cucs" germinated, but died shortly after. Even the 2 surviving plants died after blooming. My question is, do pumpkin plants kill cucumbers if they are too close together? I replanted cucumber seeds, but they also died after germinating. I don't believe it was due to cut-worms, or the boring moth larvae

Silly question here… can you tell me your watering schedule throughout the season, or until harvest?

A lot of what is considered vegetables are actually fruits!

you can wet your seeds for 6 hours as well

Did you get any 200lb pumpkins??

How much water do they need when starting out and when they start to vine out and produce?

Hey v sauce

How will you mow your grass around the vines?

Good vid thank you......sub'd Grace and peace Gilly wife of Mark

1st year 4 me

Its a furit

You need some new pumpkin growing videos :)

I grow pumpkins without making a hill 😂

Pumpkins are a lot of work and are pestered by squash beetles and cucumber beetles. Me: Better go pull out those little seedlings I planted yesterday just for fun.

Are coffee grounds bad for pumpkins?

It’s a fruit just saying

chickens . eat the bugs

You should try tops soil

Seeds need to be pointy side down when planting.

Pumpkin is a fruit not a vegetable.

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