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NILES , CALIF

How many hours per day does the average grower put in for 4 or 5 giant pumpkins? I put in at least 5 hours a day or more
for 5 pumpkins and I am pooped after that,some guys grow 10
or more pumpkins? Maybe Holland and extreme pumpkins can
start selling some kind of a get up and go vitamin for a pumpkin grower? Would like to grow 10 pumpkins in 2014;But I don't want to start taking anabolic steroids.!
Any advise?

11/1/2013 2:13:44 PM

Rhode Island

my friend
if you do everything need especially from mid may until planting area is somewhat full and just about all sides are dead ended you definately cam spend 4-6 hrs per day on six plants.---and im talking 700 sq ft and up

by mid august the vine burying is about done and its more maintaining the plant,soil and keeping an eye on plant disease issues.the daily grind gets easier now.

weekly meaasuring and thoughts of what if take over from mid july out through end of sept.the best time of the year.

pap

11/1/2013 3:27:34 PM

Johnston, R.I.

I took a shot at 11 this year going back to 4 next season.

11/1/2013 4:54:48 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

Art, work smarter not harder. In 09 when I put in the first timer based irrigation and got a backpack sprayer is when my weights really started going up.

11/1/2013 5:53:17 PM

Eurasia

When I grow on loaly soil without using a rotor tiller, I don´t have to water so much. Spade deep in autumn and spade in organic matter in two or three thin layers, so you will not lose soil contact with the upper ground water layer.
I watered only two or three times a week in this dry European summer this year, cause the loam could keep in service the nutrient uptake.
A yard before the vine I blend in a little 0-12-24 (or 0-0-50 with Holland´s mycos) with the garden claw and fix the vine with a ground peg at every knot. In loamy soil the peg is a clamp, but in rotor-tilled soil it does not work, and you have to do this odd digger job (cover the knots or the whole vine with dirt). I do not burry any vine.
Growing more efficient is a must for me, ´cause I do spadework for industrial farming.

11/2/2013 4:51:12 PM