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I have grown pumpkins for a few years now never growing more than a 300lb pumpkin. This year, I made as much space as possible and only have about 240 sq ft. I tilled in a cubic yd of Manure, and cubic yd of compost. I also tilled in Azomite, humate, perlite, sulfur and gypsum.

My question is this...Now that I have all these in the soil, what do I do now before snow fall, or am I good to go?

11/3/2013 11:10:01 PM

Littleton Co Usa

My 795 grow in oly 150sf .my 791 in 240 sf

11/3/2013 11:56:06 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Test in the spring before you plant and ammend as necessary. Not sure how soon you expect your snow, but a cover crop of winter rye is always a good thing.

11/4/2013 12:39:56 AM

Stanwood, Washington

Plant a cover crop. Test in the spring.

11/4/2013 1:19:22 AM

Eurasia

Why plant a cover crop so late in autumn? Utah with it´s typical continental weather and only 28 °F average in November (SLC) is no ground for sowing rye or triticale now in November. So much amendments are enough OM for 2014.
First I thought, that sulfur + gypsum could be too much S, but you have the privilige to get this wonderful azomite with much aluminosilicate in it there in Utah...
and so you can use that excess-S to build up alumino sulfate for plant protection (fights bad microbes and rodents).
Frightfully clever!
I would like to do this too.

11/4/2013 6:58:06 AM

Eurasia

...only 28 °F average at night in November...

11/4/2013 7:06:11 AM

Stanwood, Washington

10 day forcast for Provo.
38,38,47, 58,50,50,56,55,55,50 48
You will have no problem germinating.

11/4/2013 3:23:57 PM

Midway, UT

If you have some sand handy put your cover crop seed in a bucket with the sand and then water. Keep it indoors for two days and then plant. I did this one week ago and most all of the seeds germinated and nice blades of grass are in the patch. You can also help it a little by water after putting the seed down and then covering the planted area with clear plastic to get the ground to warm up some.

11/4/2013 4:45:03 PM

Eurasia

Ok, you do this sport in Colorado hotsy-totsy.
Yes, Arvada, GFS says two more days freeze-up and then warmer for Utah. Since I come from agriculture, I don´t think about such propagation methods for cover crops...but it will work well this year in Utah.
Kudos!

11/4/2013 5:36:18 PM