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How to Grow Pumpkins

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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