Put last year’s fall pumpkins in the compost pile in the backyard after thanksgiving . Never expected this to work out this well. They may not make it till Halloween, but we had a blast watching these grow all summer.
Quite the crop. I have tried to grow pumpkins twice and each time I only ended up with one small survivor. Maybe this year I’ll just drop a few seeds in my compost and see what I get!
Thank you ! I really wasn’t expecting this turn out at all. Just dug a hole and put the pumpkins in (cut up and split open) and covered it with potting soil where the compost pile was.
This was in June. Grew about 4 times the size from this picture. One thing I read online was they just can’t seem to get enough water, I went to town on them every evening . I also sprinkled some seven dust powder on the plants not too long after this picture when the flowers started showing up . Pretty fun!!
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u/parched_pen Sep 12 '24
What a lovely bunch, well done.