Pumpkins are a one season vegetable belonging to the genus Cucurbita.
The ground fruit grows on vines and is mainly grown for its culinary climate.
Varieties of Pumpkins:
- Sweet cream
- Onziga
- Anderina
- Sugar pie
Soil Requirement
for Growing Pumpkins:
- Pumpkins do well in loamy soils with a good drainage and a high humus percentage.
- The Soil should not be water logged as the plant can easily lot off.
How to
Propagate Pumpkins on Your Farm:
- Grow your pumpkins from seeds.
- They should take about five days from sowing to emerge.
How to Plant Pumpkins:
- It’s best to plant your pumpkins on moulds through over a flat surface can work.
- Plant seeds one inch deep at a rate of four -five seeds per hill and five-six feet between hills.
- When seedling are well established thine each hill to leave at most 2 plants per hill.
- Go ahead to space left between hills and 8ft between 10cm.
- Prune vine early in the season to discourage random growth and out of control patch.
- Keep pumpkin plants free of weeds by having shallow cultivation. Irrigate your planting if there happens to be extended dry periods.
- Watch out for powdery mildew which causes a dusty white moulds on the plant, cucumber beetles as these mainly attack seedlings and the vine at their tender age.
How Best to Harvest Pumpkins:
- It takes about 100 + 120 days for a given pumpkin variety to each maturity.
- Pumpkins are hard harvested at their mature stage.
- Multiple harvests are so common because individual fruits are pollinated at different times.
- Harvest your pumpkin fruits whenever you see their deep solid colour i.e. most colour vary between orange and green, and where the rind is also held.
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