Growing Pumpkin

Cucurbita sp. : Cucurbitaceae / the gourd family

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(Best months for growing Pumpkin in New Zealand - cool/mountain regions)

P = Sow seed

Easy to grow. Sow in garden. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed. Best planted at soil temperatures between 68°F and 90°F. (Show °C/cm)
Space plants: 35 - 47 inches apart
Harvest in 15-20 weeks.
Compatible with (can grow beside): Sweet Corn
Avoid growing close to: Potatoes

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17 Dec 23, Brett (Australia - temperate climate): It is fairly easy. A male flower has a single central stem in the middle of the flower. Like a small pencil. It has a sort of yellow pollen on it. A female flower has a circular thing in the middle of the flower. If you want to hand fertilise you just break off the male stem and stick it in the female thing and rub the pollen off. It is the same procedure as for all life I suppose.
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27 Nov 23, FOX MAN (USA - Zone 8b climate): what is the biggest type of pumpkin in a zone 8b area?
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26 Nov 23, Retha (South Africa - Summer rainfall climate): Months to plant maize, beans and pumpkin
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16 Sep 23, Jan (Canada - Zone 3a Temperate Short Summer climate): When is the best time to harvest pumkin(squash)
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19 Sep 23, (Canada - Zone 3a Temperate Short Summer climate): Best to harvest 15-20 weeks after planting
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05 Sep 23, Anne (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Any suggestions for pumpkin fly? They are rampant here.
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06 Sep 23, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Yellow sticky card board - buy from bunnings or the internet.
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18 May 23, tyler (Australia - sub-tropical climate): can you grow Kent in winter or does it die off ?
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19 May 23, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Read the planting guide again.
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06 Apr 23, Kat (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Can I grow Kent pumpkin in autumn winter in Coffs Harbour area ?
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I see we should avoid growing pumpkins and potatoes together. I have 2 vegie gardens, they are about 8 meters apart. I grew potatoes(sebago?), tomatoes (gross Lizze), and for the first time capsicum and lettuce in the big one, and jap pumkins in the smaller one last year. Lettuce were great until a hail storm hit, tomatoes, potatoes and capsicum all went well. But the pumkin in a virgin patch went ok, although some fruit did not develop. I had about 8 vines, and at one point there were 25 fruit starting to grow. Some of the flowers did not even open. Others got bulb end rot. I got about 10 good pumkins off the patch, which I think is ok considering it is smaller than recommended at 2 by 3.8 meters, and it was the first time anything had been grown in the soil. Did I have a lesser success with my pumkins because the potatoes were close by? I did have to hand pollinate a bit. What are the main reasons for not growing spuds and pumkins together?

- Don

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