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GreatFalls,Montana

how will sharing a 30 by60ft patch witha garden affect it

7/10/2006 12:24:21 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

The Pumpkin plant is an animal and will consume everything smaller than it. Corn is the only thing I know of that does OK with pumpkins.

7/10/2006 9:24:05 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

These things will climb trees and set fruit if the have to..they don't like anything between them and the sun...lol

7/10/2006 10:06:16 AM

GreatFalls,Montana

okay thanks what if i put a fence between the pumpkins and the garden then could i train the vine away from the other plant's

7/13/2006 1:50:05 PM

Montoursville, PA

Given good management and feeding the pumpkin (one plant) will fill a 30 X 40 patch easily. Your main may want, to go further but you can turn it back up along the outside of the pumpkin patch if you choose, to let it grow great distances. I find that our new growers seem to do better with a huge plant. Half that much space has grown some very nice pumpkins with good, consistant and skilled management.

My patch is about the same size as your patch. This year I listened to common sense and gave the whole patch to one pumpkin. The food factory behind the pumpkin is presently more than 700 square feet. We have to wait and see what tricks mother pulls while we bring the fruit hopefully, to a finish.

I wish you much wisdom, good weather, well fed destructive critters before thay visit your patch and luck. We all need a fair amount, of luck, to boot.

7/13/2006 2:02:22 PM

GreatFalls,Montana

hey thanks a lot doc pipe and everyone else really help

7/17/2006 6:55:09 PM

Danville, CA (petman2@yahoo.com)

If you split the patch so yours is 30 x 30, you can easily train the pumpkin to fit in that space. I would pick near say 10 foot from a corner and grow towards the opposite diagonal corner in a x-mas tree pattern. I forget which direction you want the main to face (ie N,S,E,W) but face it so correctly and allow the most secondary room on the "good" side.

When you transplant remember that as a "rule" the main grows opposite the first true leaf and you should plant at a 20% angle in the direction you want it to fall to make sure "rule" comes true. Then just train and terminate the secondaries as they reach the boundary. I am a newbie but have read a lot and this seems to be a pretty standard practice.

7/17/2006 7:55:51 PM