The Planting of the Pumpkins

Small craft pumpkins. Little orange gems that you could paint, devour, or use for some other crafty purpose. Dr. Greg and I thought that these pumpkins would be ideal for you to start to understand how pumpkins grow and how different cultivars (or cultivated variety) have certain characteristics (some teeny-tiny, some are white, some are round or long) and grow in different ways.

We also thought it was important for you to realize that you can vary the space between your pumpkin plants and maybe change how many pumpkins you will get and maybe how many weeds you might have or occurrences of disease.

So these are the different pumpkins that Dr. Greg planted at the Mtn Hort Crops Research and Extension Center (MHCREC):




















This is how the pumpkins are spaced in the field. He planted four replications. Why do you think this is important? Leave your ideas in the comment area below!






















This is what the plants look like 21 days after planting the seeds:

18 inch spacing
















27 inch spacing

















36 inch spacing

















Field Peek: 21 days after planting