What You Need to Know about Growing Pumpkins and Winter Squash
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2021
- Did you know that some pumpkins will cross - and others won't? Do you know how to make sure your heirloom winter squash stays true to type? Do you know how to fill a field full of pumpkins without improving all the soil? Today David shares his tips on growing winter squash and pumpkins, even in poor soil. Including how to stop vine borers!
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Today we talk about growing Seminole Pumpkins, growing Hubbard Squash, Growing Boston Marrow Squash and Growing Summer Squash - and how to keep them all from getting mixed up! 
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I don't know why I watched a man talk about pumpkins for 29 minutes but I'm not complaining.
Great advice. I did your "melon pit" idea when a 'possum tragically met its end on the road in front of my house. I buried it (and his flat squirrel friend) in my little garden bed and planted squashes and pumpkins over it. The vines are going everywhere! I may burn a candle in one of the pumpkins as a tribute to Mr. 'Possum who made it all possible. 😂
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HILARIOUS
Ah what a beautiful way to honor their little lives. I love this.
My Dad use to burn of the rubbish in the backyard then the next day he threw in pumpkin seeds in the burnt area and he grew the most amazing pumpkins … we lived in tropical North Queensland Australia when we were kids, now we live in Brisbane, South East Queensland and we still plant pumpkins the same as my Dad did and we have the same success. Great video… your channel is great.
Oh wow. I use to live at Aloomba south of Cairns. I now live in Townsville for past 14 yes and now have the opportunity to finally grow fresh fruit and vegies. Definitely will try your dad's method 😊 thankyou for sharing
Ooooooh! “Cut it and set it out as part of your fall display…” You’re speaking my language now! Of course I grow food to eat, but if I can set it out to be pretty and then eat it, well, I feel like Martha stinkin Stewart.
One of my friends bought something out of one of those $6 Walmart bins, once. He brought it to my house asking "wanna see if it's any good?" We cut it up and found out that it was pretty good. Apparently, we lost a seed in the yard. It produced two pumpkins. One was roughly the same size as the original, but the other was like the size of a f'ing bathtub. They both looked roughly the same as the one he bought, but one of them was huge
That is awesome.
the cross of butternut and Seminole has already been done and grown out for awhile. the cross has way more disease resistance . its called south anna butternut. edmond frost of common wealth seed growers developed it starting in 2011 and its downey mildew resistant. you can actually grow 4 types. maxina,pepo,moschata and then toss in cushaw which is argyrosperma.your planting holes are often called zai pits. covering the nodes is a very good growing tip. video filled with nuggets--thanks.
Thank you.
Takes notes. Thanks elkhound! Gonna research it.
"Artwork made my God" , BEAUTIFULLY said and I am sold. Thanks.
Someone should have told my 4th grade teacher about not carrying by the stem! She asked for help moving pumpkins we had in the classroom for decoration and said we could carry them by the stem. I volunteered and picked one up by the stem, then the stem broke out of the pumpkin and the sad pumpkin splattered on the floor. She, of course, then blamed me for being careless, even though I still had the stem in my hand. Learned my lesson though, never carried a pumpkin by the stem again.
I'm sorry you had to go through that!
“Paint your miami house orange pumpkin” 😂 I was born and raised in Miami and you nailed it with that color
That was the color of our house in miami
He nailed it
That is the color of my house--pumpkin...with chocolate,
eggplant and brick accents. 🎃
My seminole have been growing for two months and no or few flowers...might be lack of bees and the blossoms are falling off?
I had a Georgia candy roaster that went nuts! Climed a five foot fence and grew up into my locust trees. Fruit formed in the trees and hung dow very stron stems with no losses! Amazing
Art work by God in the garden
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For any norther gardeners: Buttercup squash was developed by the U of North Dakota as a short growing season winter squash. It has a flavor like sweet potatoes. If you like more savory try Lakota squash; also grows very quickly for a short season.
Excellent - thank you.
Thank you I'm always trying for winter squash but my growing season is very short
Lakota Squash is awesome
They make excellent cookies
You just saved my entire Cherokee tan pumpkin seed saving harvest with the information that the yellow crooked neck will not cross. Thank you. Good info here.
“Like a beautiful pregnant lady”
Ah, my heart. I just adore you, David. You’ve given yourself the perfect moniker. Also, getting all those surprise varieties of pumpkins is such a joy. I love that aspect of gardening. Nature is simply spectacular!
❤🎃 ☺️ (I can’t believe your clear green leaves, free of powdery mildew! My Pumkin leaves never look that good. Even with Neem and Copper!)
The squirrel reference made me laugh so hard I had to push pause.
Squirrel tragedies can happen in a gardening situation. Boom!
Alot of chipmunks "accidently" died in my flower bed's... >.>
If you have the patience, you could keep crossing pumpkins from the seeds from that plot, select the healthiest crosses you like best each year for more seed, and eventually develop your own stabilized open-pollinated cross that is *perfectly* adapted to *your* climate and conditions. I'm considering doing that with a variety of good heirloom cherry tomatoes in our back pasture, where they'd be far enough away that the weird mix of genetics isn't likely to cross-pollinate our "normal" heirlooms.
That's not exactly a "proper" breeding program, but it's more or less kinda sorta how it goes.
Yes. I started doing that years ago, then moved overseas and lost the line. It's fun to see what the crosses create.
As for tomatoes, they are strong in-breeders. You can grow varieties close and they usually don't cross unless you deliberately tear open blooms and pollinate them by hand.
@@davidthegood that's my experience as well, you have to actually try to cross tomatoes. I wouldn't rely solely on insect etc pollination for any breeding project.
I once accidentally ended up with some red "yellow pear" volunteer tomatoes which I believe were a cross, and I was all excited about it, but then I realized that stable red pear cherry tomatoes already exist, so I didn't pursue that particular batch of seeds any further.
Idky but seeing different varieties and colors of pumpkins growing makes me happy. They’re so beautiful.
Beautiful! Last fall I collected pumpkins and leaves from all over my small town. I threw the pumpkins and the leaves all in a pile to begin my compost piles and added to them ever since with food scraps, wood chips, garden waste, etc. Now I have at least one pumpkin/squash growing beautifully. It's not vining much. More bushy like a zucchini, but it's fruiting and I can't wait to see what it ends up being. Zone 5a Rigby, Idaho.
This year I bought almost 50lbs of "decorative" pumpkins for about 20$.
I'm saving the seeds and planting an insane amount of them this spring.
Food for me, for my chickens and my compost!
How'd it go?
Those Seminole pumpkin seeds you gave us some years ago did great, and the pumpkins themselves did last like 18 months off the vine.
This brings up a good topic. I still have my watermelon from last year.
@@msb8013 Is it still edible?
@@godonlylovesme1638 it appears to be. No holes or rotting whatsoever. Does it just get tastier or what?
your womb analogy really made it click
“And if a poor little squirrel happens to die while eating your corn, bury it in the pumpkin pit.” (insert Boom Boom snippet here without skipping a beat) 🤣🤣love it!!
That's composting your enemies
This was amazing! I've been trying to maximize my growing space--you convinced me to dig pits around the yard and let them go! Thanks!
So jelly! I planted a bunch of different varieties of winter squash to trial what grows well under conditions in my yard in NC. I believe the last man standing is a Seminole pumpkin. We’ll see. Hoping to work on a landrace. Great info! Thank you!
Thank you for explaining the mother plant thing!! I finally understand how these crosses work. My compost pile has given me so many strange and wonderful pumpkin surprises over the years and now I know why.
Extremely helpful video. I learned a lot watching this. Thank you.
Thank you for all the information packed into such a "short" video, always on point and to the point
Thank you.
Thanks David for the informative video on pumpkins with great cross breeding information. And yes pumpkins are always in my garden and they are a delightful creation. I should add a variety that has flavor + character and save its seed. Bless you and your family!
Great tips thanks! I have only one Seminole pumpkin vine growing but so far so good. I also got one of those ñame from Publix and sure enough its growing! Yay! Thanks for that tip too! 🙏❤
I too had a pumpkin that stayed edible for almost two years. 🎉👍
🤩. Thanks for this Great teaching vid, I learned a lot. Good job. 👌✨👌
David, I am so grateful to you. Your talks are so informative. I am so ready to turn the lawn into a pumpkin patch. wow
DO IT
Wonderful information about the trellising which I originally wanted to do ...looks like it will be cucumbers instead ...the rooting at the nodes is amazing ,now I see said the blind man!! Thanks so much for all of your knowledge and educating us! Slowly incorporating what I can,need to get the rest of your books for my library...love having that info in hand,stay BLESSED!
I thought it was great that the seminol was climbing into the elderberry. I'll get it off right away. Thanks again!
I grew Seminole pumpkins in the Virginia mountains and they were fantastic. I kept them in my kitchen.
Here in NW Florida I have tried every other trick with vine borer. I can’t wait to try your way. Speggetti squash is my favorite and pumpkins are a favorite all the time
I learned from this video that it's best to wait 4 to 6 weeks after harvesting to eat , ty
Planted 4 Seminole pumpkin seeds over a melon pit....they have taken over the side of my house! Tried to climb my fig tree! I've had to cut them back multiple times
Excellent.
I never paid attention to the different types of pumpkins 🎃. This is a learning video for me. Thank you 😊
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Planted into about 30 spots yesterday. Love the pumpkins! I’ll plant into some melon pits too. Thanks
Good work!!!
Learned a few things. Thanks David.
Yeah! Muh Punkin Content! Thanks DTG!
Last year I planted out seeds from a very similar pumpkin to the one you described and had similiar results. I planted six seeds and they had a great variety of fruit. Three were the flattish slate gray type one was a pink globe and one a orange "cinderella" type and the last very close to the one called "turk's turban". The best were the gray ones (tho' after a while curing they turned a light pink) sweet and dense. They made great soup. Gordon Ramsey's recipe is excellent and easy.
Last season a squirrel or rodent ate a hole in a pumpkin I brought home.. left outdoors as a decoration.. two pumpkin plants started sprouting that following next spring..one just off my front porch.. and one in my flower garden.. so I let them grow not having a clue what I was in for…live and let live so to speak.. Japanese Beatles destroyed my backyard plant yet the front yard plant took off along the porch.. and ran along the front of the house behind my bushes to emerge at my side yard so gently turning back along the front side of said bushes I gained an amazing display of yellow flowers.. I was blow’n away… I harvested five pateet pumpkins last year… some green/orange.. and orange..Soooo I’m hooked.. going to try melons as well.. so I’m a subscriber now
That is awesome
The ladies tank tops are sold out! More black ones, please, David!
I will write The Aardvark.
This was SO HELPFUL! I've been growing pumpkins in the dark!! Thanks for some LIGHT on the subject
Exciting to see the results of your rotting fertile holes DTG! We've started a few of your stinky pits for this 2022 year in zone 9b cal. Thankyou and merry pumpkin patching this year ya'll. 🎃
Me too! Zone 9b Florida
Last year I grew all sorts of zucchini, pumpkins, and gourds. This year I have a few volunteers growing. One of the plants is growing bushy with short vines like zucchini, it has three elongated fruits growing on it shaped like zucchini. Two of the fruit are white like Casper pumpkin I grew last year and the third fruit is half green and half yellow like one of the gourds I grew last year.
Awesome information, thank you! I love squash and will be giving them a go for sure.
I think the squash pits are a great idea! I dug some pits the other day, burned sticks, watered it down, added scraps, chopped em with the shovel, added some slurry and topped it off with a can of sardines in water. Added compost to the dead FL sand and planted seminole seeds. And pray they grow! I’m going to use the pits for melons too (I’ll try). Good vid 👍 Thank you Daaaa-vid the Good! 🤣
I have plenty of room to plant. Planning to plant squash/pumpkins to help supplement purchased feed for our hogs and chickens next fall. Love the idea to gather seeds as they are a lot of $ to do a huge area of.
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Longevity of storage
I got the same pumpkins from Walmart, so happy I’m not the only one.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💙💙💙
Good work.
Growing in central florida and squash are my #1 difficulty due to vine borers. You absolutely blew my mind with the dirt covering trick. Gonna go stick some seeds in the ground right now! 🤞
thank you so much for all that valuable info. very useful.
Thanks for all the pumpkin information, love growing squash.
Thank you - me too.
Wow! You sure do know your pumpkins!! Great advice.Thankyou
Thanks David ...great pumpkin tips.
Thank you for the info. Didn't know they would root like that.
Gregor Mendel would be so intrigued. As he always used to say, "Ah yes...recessive and dominant traits. There ya go." :)
Fantastic video... I had no idea all of the ins-and-outs of growing pumpkins/squash. Thanks!
Very timely video, thank you 🎃
Thank you for giving the variety names of the squash and pumpkin. Great presentation. I keep my bees on a local farm that only grows jack o lantern pumpkins. I want something that I can eat. I'm now looking for extra ground for the bees and to get a large area for vine plants and vegetables
I never knew pumpkin needs to be cured.
This was super helpful! Thank you for all the advice! I tried growing pumpkins here in Central Florida after having Halloween pumpkins left over from the holidays. They were from a farm in Mexico. I figured it was a long shot but might get lucky. They grew so fast and flowered too! I was so excited. We got unexpected cold/hot streaks coming in and it pretty much killed them off. I had one survive in a bucket and it did make a yellow pumkin but it was so tiny like just under a golf ball size. Never grew any bigger. I think it was cross pollinated and may also had some soil issues. I had gotten jack-o-lantern, the small white ones and one large white flat one for decoration. The seeds were from the jacks and the little white ones. I had no idea they could cross pollinate so ill need to keep that in mind for my next one. I think I'll try the Seminole this time. Local might be better. The burning idea too! We have been building up a compost pile for the garden since last year. Hopefully next year we will have more luck. I never would have guessed about those pests too. My thoughts would have been to trim back the vines but I'll keep them now just in case.
The C. pepos were sketchy for me in Florida.
I love growing pumpkins! I love your video. Lots of great info. Thank you! Brightest Blessings ✨💫
Great stuff David. Thank you for the great tips.
David, my friend, you've sold me on the pumpkin patch. Cheers.
Awesome.
Rouge vif d’Etamps (Cinderella pumpkin) and Long Island Cheese are our 2 favorites. So much more flavor and fun in heirlooms.
Great video! What I learned today may save my pumpkin patch!!!
Hello David The Good thanks for sharing this video on pumpkins very interesting
I get it David in the ground I've been able to dig the vine borers out and cover the hole with dirt I couldn't do that when I tried to grow them vertically. However in containers I have 3 patty pan squash plants with lower stalk covered with foil and then I have this green nonsticky tape that I've wrapped all over the stem up to leaves. So far so good!!
Good idea.
I use foil on my squashes and cukes
I had tried the foil but it didn't work for me
I finally understand my passion for burning & pumpkins. Not to mention roadkill...but I already got that.
When I was a kid our dog died so my mom burried him under corn. It was the best corn she ever saw thru her life.
Thank you for reminding me about the fish head in my fridge. I have a 30x40 area which used to be for horses years ago. I think I'm going to try & pumpkin patch it. I had already told the better half I was going to be burning a ton of old wood debri in that yard. I'm excited to see how this works out.
So much good info in one video. Thank you for not wasting my time! Really…. Thank you!
PS: also love the tune
Thank you.
Thanks. Learned a lot. Short season ip here so your advice is great.
Thank you.
Loved this video. Such wonderful information!
I basically did this with corn and squashes this year but I call em Hopi Holes :) dug a hole about a foot down, put a shovel full of goat manure in, filled most of the hole back in, planted seeds, then one to two more inches of soil on top with some light mulch. They are all doing really well! I will do this all over my 5 acres next year!
I'm in Colorado so I make the hole as kind of a basin too to retain water.
Love your video. Its great and those pumpkins are wonderful . You have a real green thumb. Thanks for share your videos.
Thanks, Jose.
Great Vid Bud , well done
Hmm…I’ve run out of enemies can I compost my friends? ;) wondering about growing pumpkins/squash under semi shade? With less than 100 days until our first frost date. Your video gives me inspiration to just try ! See what happens! Thank you, David TG! & your wife & family! …lol, I had a wonderful old-man-dog named Rudder(his first people were into boats?), lost him at 23 this past Fall. Dug up and planted “mystery-squash” seeds over him this year. They are growing beautifully so far! We have named the squash Rudder-Nut-Squash, in his honor! …my brothers & family has already refused to eat any of them, hahaaa! I hope they grow Something!!! Thank you again!
That is hilariously demented.
Eat the leaves, tips and flowers. ruclips.net/video/Q-Fxt-6y9M0/видео.html and see if you can manage some green pumpkins to eat like zucchini
Wow. I learned so much from you. I grew pumpkins for over 20 years and let the volunteers do thier thing. We had very nice pumpkins for decoration large ones and Jack be little ones. Till I composted everything and no more volunteers. Darn. I had to plant new varieties this year. Well see what happens. Thank you so much. 😍
Good luck - and you are welcome.
Did you compost the volunteers?
How cool that you ended up with so many different looking ones from one pumpkin! Those are gorgeous! Very interesting video! 🌱🌱🌱🌱 🎃
Thank you.
You're right on time with this video, I can't successfully grow a pumpkin to save my life.
Just puta seed in your deep compost pile and water!
What fun to have the room to experiment and allow for all of those pumpkin surprises. You got the entire Walmart bin with a few vines.
Very informative. I grow only in containers but I will be brave to grow them in the ground.
I gave you a live shout out, of course my little guy decided to ramp up so it turned out interesting. lol It was just a promotion of your channel using one of your awesome tee-shirts and a thank you DTG for sharing all your knowledge from really doing it. Very cool Maxima pumpkin turn out. Now all the gardeners will be heading toward Walmart this Fall to grab an heirloom grey green pumpkin.
Thank you very much. Glad you are making videos!
@@davidthegood Well, I am trying, but struggling with little man being so abstract random and loud. I guess I would also like a production team like “The Goods”. :)
Its amazing how people around the world used same techniques without modern technology to exchange information. Melon pits is used in Maldives to grow melons in generations. I learned those techniques from my great grandfather. I actually thought its a tradition at first, but results surprised me. It doesn't matter what you grow, if u have bad soil, use this method and fetile the root zone. If u want to plant a fruit tree make a bigger melon pit and use it as an inground dirty compost for one year. Even burn the woody stuff in it.
The good news is that while I was weeding the garden bed today I mooshed 2 borer pupae. (Had gloves in because they were nasty and juicy) The bad news is I had to pull my last 2 squash out because of them. In other news…I have more squash seeds started already. I should still have time.
Good kill!
Beautiful pumpkins!
I've never done well growing them.
Keep trying. I think this is going to be my year.
This is interesting I throw all the waste from out pets, chickens and house, cardboard, food scraps etc into one of my veg rows. Each year I start a new row and allow the old row to rest, growing non edibles, before using it to grow edibles once the contents are 2 years old. This year I threw some random pumpkin seeds (that I had saved from ones we had eaten) on my current compost row. They have taken over the whole bottom 1/2 of my garden and look much healthier than the seeds that I have growing in other parts of the garden. I like this way of composting because I don’t have to dig or move soil. Every few years my rows are composted without a lot of effort from my.
Absolutely. It's a great idea.
Wish there was a chart of what cross breeds and what doesn’t. Great video thanks. Will be trying this method
It's simple. There are 3 species: c. moschata, c. maxima, & c. pepo. There are many varieties of each species. Varieties from different species won't cross; varieties from the same species will cross. Dogs can't cross with cats, different species. Labrador can cross with basset hound, same species.
Very pretty pumpkins
“Dingy green-gray”…. Ohhh, we love it!!! 😂👍
This was great info .. grew Cherokee tan pumpkins first time this year they are still growing .. I'm going to try your pit method in spring .. I'm Citrus County Zone 9a
Wow absolutely beautiful Pumpkin Patch you have
Great video packed with loads of information!
I have over planted once again.lol
I’m gonna have to thin them out.
I have plenty of heat down here in South Florida for sure.
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Chop chop, Rita!
Beautiful!
Very helpful! Thank you!
South Ana butternut is a cross of Seminole pumpkin and Waltham butternut that is stabilized and has amazing vigor and great keeping quality. I’m growing it alongside Seminole pumpkins and Cherokee tan pumpkins lol his year.
Sounds like a great variety.
Thank you very much for sharing all the knowledge in June I plant pumpkins 28 plants guess what about 2 feet apart I don’t know how many pumpkins I’m going to have or any well there are some already which ones or how many they are going to be full mature for next year I will be ready. I have learned a whole lot. Thank you very much.
Nice info. I grow canada crookneck c. Moschata. Love them. We are on poor sandy soils and our only bad pest is also squash vine borer. I cant grow zukes bc of them. What you really need to know about squash and pumpkin is, how the hell am I going to eat 500 lbs of it? I'm finding some pretty neat ways of using it all up tho...
Sweet video bro I'm on my third year of pumpkin and squash
My compact growing zucchini squash grew next to my vining spaghetti squash. Their squash looked right. The seeds I planted from them grew vines but produced zucchinis. It was weird but cool. We liked zucchinis more.