ITS NEARLY HERE GUYS!!!
MAN, i feel like i could with a engine strapped to my leg for all this digging, weather is picking up really well, onoins and garlic are doing really well, parsnips threw, spuds are in and me and the kids are going to put some boltardy beetroot in this weekend. does any one no if pumpkins like well rotted horse muck, because ive dug tofour pitts 1 1/2 ft deepand across and filled it with muck then put soil back over the top of the pitts and built dams round the pits for my kids pumpkins we are going for big! pumpkins this year. have i done right on wrong please feel free to let me know as this is my second year of growing pumpkins on my plot. any advise would be great thanks alot simon
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Pumpkins
lottyman Posted at 04:51 on Fri, 04/08/2011Hi
If you want to try and grow big pumpkins you want the correct seed. You are nearly right with the soil preparation
Dig a hole about 18ins square down to the subsoil then fork over the subsoil incorporating your horse do do's at the same time. Mix the soil that is left with good quality fertilizer and return to the hole. Heap the soil up to form a mound and plant the pumpkin on top. Insert THREE pieces of plastic pipe around each plant about 2ft. from the plant and water through these. Never water on the mound near the base of the plant because they are liable to rot off.Try to build some sort of shelter round your plant to protect it from the cold winds then when the plant is well established about June remove the protection and keep well fed and watered a good quality liquid feed is ideal eg Vitax or Chempak.
Mix the feed at half strength and apply every time you water and only water down the pipes
Happy gardening
Lottyman