What's your favorite "food pumpkin" to grow? Let us know! SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees 0:00 Intro 0:34 Our Upcoming Sweet Corn Harvest 2:00 Why Didn't These Sunflowers Get "Giant?" 3:17 Improving the Way We Grow Zinnias 5:02 Georgia Jet Sweet Potatoes 5:28 Training Our Giant Butternut Squash Plants 10:04 Growing Seminole Pumpkins for Food 11:05 Can We Grow a 500 lb Pumpkin?
I like to grow Seminole Indian pumpkins from Baker Creek seed company. The reason is because they're very sweet they're edible the size of a tennis ball and you can prepare them just like you would yellow squash, when they're fully mature they will last up to a year if kept in a dark cool dry place. They make great pumpkin pies or they can be prepared just like you would have butternut squash.
Pumpkins !!!!! Where's all caps button?. I have 20-something seedlings of small sugar pumpkin and no where to plant them except 5-gallon buckets. Lovely blessings everyone.
Nice squash Travis. Keep us updated on the Seminole pumpkins, I'm trying them this year and we're a few weeks behind you. Squash bugs tear us up almost every year, hoping the Seminole will fare better. Maybe I should stop fertilizing out of that Mizzou tigers bucket 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I direct seed all my sunflowers-even mammoth…NO ISSUES 😊. I’m growing zinnias in a small bed with eggplant and tomatoes. Doing well in West Central Florida. Fighting pests and dealing with a lot of rain lately. Love following you. ❤
My sunflowers did great this year. I hit em with nitrogen 3 or 4 times during the growing stage. Have several well of 12 ft tall and several heads pushing 18 inches in diameter. Now I just have to learn what to do with em.
Just got my giant butternut squash transplanted into garden up here in mn. Hopefully they do well. Planted in spot where I had them 20 pound cabbages last year and I added bunch of worm castings and chicken manure. So we’ll see if ya have a chance.
Sorry sorry to go off topic on you; but, moving vines of squash, cukes, and probably others TOO much will stop production. Grand blessings for at least most of us.
I 'd like to see you pick up some discarded 4'x4' wooden pallets as a base for the maturing pumpkins. I'd surface those pallets with AstroTurf or some similar product that would allow air flow around the fruit and for drainage and to avoid ground contact where the decay fungus and bacteria thrive. You'll also need to be able to get a backhoe in there to hoist Mr. Big onto the trailer for the trip to the scales. Would you please run a segment on your tomato garden? Tomatoes are one of the vegetables which we grow in common and even many of the same varieties. We're in competition (though you may not have realized it) for plant vigor, disease resistance, yield and above all, flavor. I can beat the pants off the local tomato heads, but Lazy Dog Farm could well be in a different league. Got a half dozen of your Turkey Creek cultivar which are near the top of the leader board in vigor. Jasmine Street Farm
I just filmed a tomato video today that will air next Monday. Red Snappers are looking phenomenal as usual. Indeterminates look terrible. Dixie Red in the raised bed garden looks promising.
You got a head start there Travis! My Giant pumkins are just getting their 2nd set of leaves, but they're some big ole leaves, lemme tell ya! 1000 sf per plant?? That's more than a lot of people get, lol. Mine will have to just outgrow their tiny home equivalent space. Fingers crossed! Thanks for all the tips!
I have a bunch of sunflowers in the grow bags with the acorn squash. They are not that tall. But the birds dropped one over by the fence and it's so tall in comparison. I hope you love that queen lime series of zinnia as much as I do. They are gorgeous.
Hey Trav, that modified Christmas tree vining pattern where you circle the vines back like that is called a spider pattern! I have some of your giant butternut squash growing in the garden, and I hope to give you a challenge. I'm way behind right now in Idaho, (but catching up)!
Hey, just following up, I was answering a viewer's question here and I should say, you ideally want to set a giant pumpkin at least 10 feet out on the main. A little more is even better. I've been pursuing this for 20+ years. If you can count 150 leaves on the plant before you set that pumpkin, that's best because you'll have great conditions for that baby pumpkin right from the start. Good luck! (The really big tip? Shade cloth. In 90+ temps, that plant is just surviving, not got much left over to put into the pumpkin.)
Looks like you've got the training technique down pat. One thing I didn't see you mention, but I'm guessing you've been told... When you decide which fruit to keep on the giant pumpkin plant, you will need to reserve some slack in the vine near that fruit so that the growing pumpkin doesn't pull up or possibly break the vine.
Travis, Vego Garden beds makes a tool storage box that hooks to the top of the raised beds that works great for storing that big box of florida weave twine along with your other trowels, cobra heads, etc. Thought I'd give you a heads up.
I'm curious to see how the giant butternut squash turns out, but I have no interest in a pumpkin I can't eat. I bought a huge packet of different sun flowers and I can't wait to see what they look like.
I've found it is best to train the vines during the hottest part of the day when they are limp. In the morning, the vines will be turgid and easily broken.
Mine petered out too. They also caused a problem with my red rippers. Every plant within 3 feet of my sunflowers died. I will be more careful next time. No peas, or beans with sunflowers!!
Hi Travis. Thank You. At the very end of the video, it sounded like big rain drops were starting to come down, couple at a time. Was this true? Cheers, Chuck in Jensen Beach Florida. Rainy season is starting.
I grow my field corn from transplants, which solves a lot of issues. I'll be doing the same with sweet corn in a few weeks. That may be an option, though likely not if you're planning on planting more than a few hundred plants. It transplants just fine, provided you get it in the ground quickly. Normally I'm transplanting as soon as most plants have three leaves on them, which is just a couple of weeks after sowing.
@@bobbun9630 I would do that if I wasn’t doing about 1000 plants lol. That would be a lot of transplanting lol. I have heard using a radio on a talk show. I’m going to try that next year. I gave up already this year because I have replanted 3 times and every time they get to it. I even put a net all around it and they still got it. 🤷🏻♂️
I've always attributed funky shaped fruits to some kind of pollination issue, although I'm not 100% positive that's the case. Haven't seen any of it on mine yet.
Question: corn, I’m seen video’s people cut lower leafs off and cut top off said it makes corn grow bigger and fuller is there any truth to is? Asking because it didn’t really show in video steps because when the did it corn already looked big and full.
Travis, how do you keep raccoons out of your corn?? I'm planting for the 1st time in a community garden. I'm told no one succeeded in growing due to raccoons. Suggestions would be helpful
Even live trapping and relocating is no picnic. The XL size of Duke brand traps are my favorite since they'll hold up to even the big bruisers. Relocated 17 in the last three years. Another option is a spray deterrent made with water, One Million Scoville hot sauce (Amazon), and Bonide sticker/spreader (Amazon). Add a couple of drops of food coloring to indicate where you've sprayed. Avoid skin contact and use eye protection. I just sprayed the perimeter of the corn field and the raccoons have never returned..
Raccoons typically think the corn is ready way before the farmer thinks so......Mother Nature's masked thieves......A raccoon raided and killed a batch of broiler chickens at "Just a Few Acres Farm" RUclips channel. He caught it afterward with a live trap
The same thing happened to me on my giant sunflower seeds I ordered from you. I have 3 in a raised bed that I have an in ground worm hut and they are growing a few inches evert 24 hours and the leaves are massive. I planted 3 more in a raised bed with no worm hut and they are 1/3 the size. I attributed it to the worm hut. I also started the seeds indoors and transplanted them. All this to say I don’t know why starting them indoors would make a difference in the growth. Your thoughts?
I don't know why transplanting would make a difference. But I've seen photos of the same exact seeds growing monsters in West Virginia from the guy who sent them to us. Very odd.
I don't think it matters much. We plan to let a few fruits develop and then prune to only one. We'll pick the one that looks the best and that is also the most accessible. If it's in a tight spot, it might not be a good one to choose to leave on the plant.
Just about every grower wants to get a fruit 10+ feet out on the main. If you can, 13 to 16 feet out is probably best. A few growers actually cut the vine after the fruit, but most just let it keep growing as long as possible. At some point all of the vines are "terminated" except the main... the consensus is that if the main is growing then the plant will continue to pump "growth hormones" and the fruit will grow for a longer time.
Third branch cut off? Lol. I guess I'll get in trouble for saying this but I'm thinking that maybe you talk funny. Sorry sorry. Lol. Great blessings everyone, everywhere.
@@LazyDogFarm oh. uTube doesn't have a button to use sound to open a dictionary. I probably never said I'm disabled. So can't work phone easily. Sorry getting sidetracked. I'll have to edit this later.
Uhmm.. sorry friend.. but your ignorance is showing. The Seminole pumpkin is a squash type variety.. moreso than an actual pumpkin variety. The butternut squash is definitely a squash. Now I'm sure if there is a specific type of variety that you need information on I'm sure he would be glad to point you in the right direction
What's your favorite "food pumpkin" to grow? Let us know!
SHOP LAZY DOG FARM FIG TREES: lazydogfarm.com/collections/fig-trees
0:00 Intro
0:34 Our Upcoming Sweet Corn Harvest
2:00 Why Didn't These Sunflowers Get "Giant?"
3:17 Improving the Way We Grow Zinnias
5:02 Georgia Jet Sweet Potatoes
5:28 Training Our Giant Butternut Squash Plants
10:04 Growing Seminole Pumpkins for Food
11:05 Can We Grow a 500 lb Pumpkin?
Great video, very good information! Good luck
I like to grow Seminole Indian pumpkins from Baker Creek seed company. The reason is because they're very sweet they're edible the size of a tennis ball and you can prepare them just like you would yellow squash, when they're fully mature they will last up to a year if kept in a dark cool dry place. They make great pumpkin pies or they can be prepared just like you would have butternut squash.
Pumpkins !!!!! Where's all caps button?. I have 20-something seedlings of small sugar pumpkin and no where to plant them except 5-gallon buckets. Lovely blessings everyone.
Dang Tickle, bet you gonna make some fine shine outta that corn.
Get the pots hot Tim!
A 500 lb pumpkin? I bet that would REALLY piss off my HOA.
I love it!😅
Go for it! lol
Our giant butternuts are growing great! Great seeds!!
Lol. If you wanted to share those butternut squashes, I'd sign up. Grand blessings everyone.
Your SQUAH training is very helpful! Great help!
I harvested my first ears of Eden last week and they were really good. Not as big as your ears but still good eating.
Yeah it's quite tasty!
Nice squash Travis. Keep us updated on the Seminole pumpkins, I'm trying them this year and we're a few weeks behind you. Squash bugs tear us up almost every year, hoping the Seminole will fare better. Maybe I should stop fertilizing out of that Mizzou tigers bucket 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Growing Cherokee Tan pumpkins this year.
I direct seed all my sunflowers-even mammoth…NO ISSUES 😊.
I’m growing zinnias in a small bed with eggplant and tomatoes. Doing well in West Central Florida. Fighting pests and dealing with a lot of rain lately. Love following you. ❤
What do you do for pests?
@@chrisz.9974 Marigolds all over the place and when push comes to shove BT and DE. Very little Sevin. The grubs I scream then start the stomping dance
I love watching all your videos. Thank you for also sharing mistakes along with your successes. I find it all very helpful.❤
My sunflowers did great this year. I hit em with nitrogen 3 or 4 times during the growing stage. Have several well of 12 ft tall and several heads pushing 18 inches in diameter. Now I just have to learn what to do with em.
Whew...them guns! 💪💪
Beat me to it 🤣
When you are a gardener, every day is gym day.
He's blooming married!!
Just got my giant butternut squash transplanted into garden up here in mn. Hopefully they do well. Planted in spot where I had them 20 pound cabbages last year and I added bunch of worm castings and chicken manure. So we’ll see if ya have a chance.
Sorry sorry to go off topic on you; but, moving vines of squash, cukes, and probably others TOO much will stop production. Grand blessings for at least most of us.
I 'd like to see you pick up some discarded 4'x4' wooden pallets as a base for the maturing pumpkins. I'd surface those pallets with AstroTurf or some similar product that would allow air flow around the fruit and for drainage and to avoid ground contact where the decay fungus and bacteria thrive. You'll also need to be able to get a backhoe in there to hoist Mr. Big onto the trailer for the trip to the scales.
Would you please run a segment on your tomato garden? Tomatoes are one of the vegetables which we grow in common and even many of the same varieties. We're in competition (though you may not have realized it) for plant vigor, disease resistance, yield and above all, flavor. I can beat the pants off the local tomato heads, but Lazy Dog Farm could well be in a different league. Got a half dozen of your Turkey Creek cultivar which are near the top of the leader board in vigor.
Jasmine Street Farm
I just filmed a tomato video today that will air next Monday. Red Snappers are looking phenomenal as usual. Indeterminates look terrible. Dixie Red in the raised bed garden looks promising.
You got a head start there Travis! My Giant pumkins are just getting their 2nd set of leaves, but they're some big ole leaves, lemme tell ya! 1000 sf per plant?? That's more than a lot of people get, lol. Mine will have to just outgrow their tiny home equivalent space. Fingers crossed! Thanks for all the tips!
God is good! your garden looks great.
Hello
I love fresh corn on cob so delicious
Your crops look amazing 👍
I have a bunch of sunflowers in the grow bags with the acorn squash. They are not that tall. But the birds dropped one over by the fence and it's so tall in comparison. I hope you love that queen lime series of zinnia as much as I do. They are gorgeous.
Hey Trav, that modified Christmas tree vining pattern where you circle the vines back like that is called a spider pattern! I have some of your giant butternut squash growing in the garden, and I hope to give you a challenge. I'm way behind right now in Idaho, (but catching up)!
Hey, just following up, I was answering a viewer's question here and I should say, you ideally want to set a giant pumpkin at least 10 feet out on the main. A little more is even better. I've been pursuing this for 20+ years. If you can count 150 leaves on the plant before you set that pumpkin, that's best because you'll have great conditions for that baby pumpkin right from the start. Good luck! (The really big tip? Shade cloth. In 90+ temps, that plant is just surviving, not got much left over to put into the pumpkin.)
Thanks Cliff! Yeah I definitely need to rig a little shade cloth teepee for my pumpkin this year. Not sure I can shade cloth the whole plot though.
@@LazyDogFarm I’m gonna have 2300 square feet for four plants, but do what you can.
Looking forward to the corn video's
Looks like you've got the training technique down pat. One thing I didn't see you mention, but I'm guessing you've been told... When you decide which fruit to keep on the giant pumpkin plant, you will need to reserve some slack in the vine near that fruit so that the growing pumpkin doesn't pull up or possibly break the vine.
That's right. Gotta leave a little slack in the line to account for the pumpkin enlarging.
I direct seed my sunflowers and they make huge flowers.
Hey Trav😊
Whew early for this one. Didnt plant any squash this year but I'll keep it all in mind for next year.
Awe come-on now. Pop just 1 just 1 😊
@@DaytonasGarden I have ran out of space and.... well looking at these bad boys, they want all of it 🤣😂
@@wormulous literally all of it too they are insane 🤯
Travis, Vego Garden beds makes a tool storage box that hooks to the top of the raised beds that works great for storing that big box of florida weave twine along with your other trowels, cobra heads, etc. Thought I'd give you a heads up.
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I don't feel so bad now that my giant Sunflowers are little too, they look much like yours.
I'm curious to see how the giant butternut squash turns out, but I have no interest in a pumpkin I can't eat. I bought a huge packet of different sun flowers and I can't wait to see what they look like.
Them gnats about to carry you off!
They're getting bad out here!
I've found it is best to train the vines during the hottest part of the day when they are limp. In the morning, the vines will be turgid and easily broken.
thank you for this .. i hadnt thought of that , but it makes sense
Great vid!!
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Mine petered out too. They also caused a problem with my red rippers. Every plant within 3 feet of my sunflowers died. I will be more careful next time. No peas, or beans with sunflowers!!
Hi Travis. Thank You. At the very end of the video, it sounded like big rain drops were starting to come down, couple at a time. Was this true?
Cheers, Chuck in Jensen Beach Florida. Rainy season is starting.
Yes that was rain. Got finished with this video right in time. We need some more of it though.
Trav if you trellis the Seminole pumpkins will you get pumpkins up the trellis? I won’t to sling the fruits because I am limited on space.
You can probably trellis those pretty easily. The fruits don't get that big.
I thought u said in the past that u couldn’t over fertilize with the organic fertilizer?
It's difficult to do so and this was the first time I've burnt something with organic fertilizer. So I was wrong in saying that it can't be done.
Question for you on your sweet corn. How do you keep the squirrels from eating your seeds out of the ground?
I grow my field corn from transplants, which solves a lot of issues. I'll be doing the same with sweet corn in a few weeks. That may be an option, though likely not if you're planning on planting more than a few hundred plants. It transplants just fine, provided you get it in the ground quickly. Normally I'm transplanting as soon as most plants have three leaves on them, which is just a couple of weeks after sowing.
Tiger the cat probably
@@bobbun9630 I would do that if I wasn’t doing about 1000 plants lol. That would be a lot of transplanting lol. I have heard using a radio on a talk show. I’m going to try that next year. I gave up already this year because I have replanted 3 times and every time they get to it. I even put a net all around it and they still got it. 🤷🏻♂️
Hey Travis. It’s me again. So one of my plants has grown twins and triplets (2 or 3 squash out of one stem). Is this normal behavior for squash?
I've always attributed funky shaped fruits to some kind of pollination issue, although I'm not 100% positive that's the case. Haven't seen any of it on mine yet.
Question: corn, I’m seen video’s people cut lower leafs off and cut top off said it makes corn grow bigger and fuller is there any truth to is? Asking because it didn’t really show in video steps because when the did it corn already looked big and full.
I wouldn't do that. Just let it grow.
@@LazyDogFarm ok thank you
Hey, How do you all control the VINEBORE?
Oh no, why is your soil so naked? Didn't you think about mulch? My favourite pumpkin is sweet dumpling, really tasty and stores well.
We grow a lot of cover crops. Hard to do that with mulch.
@@LazyDogFarm You can mulch using cover crops. See for example "No-Till Growers". Not only it improves soil, but saves your work too...
Travis, how do you keep raccoons out of your corn?? I'm planting for the 1st time in a community garden. I'm told no one succeeded in growing due to raccoons.
Suggestions would be helpful
I'd say set traps to catch them and relocate them., that's what we had to do. Someone who coon hunts wanted them.
Even live trapping and relocating is no picnic. The XL size of Duke brand traps are my favorite since they'll hold up to even the big bruisers. Relocated 17 in the last three years. Another option is a spray deterrent made with water, One Million Scoville hot sauce (Amazon), and Bonide sticker/spreader (Amazon). Add a couple of drops of food coloring to indicate where you've sprayed. Avoid skin contact and use eye protection. I just sprayed the perimeter of the corn field and the raccoons have never returned..
Raccoons typically think the corn is ready way before the farmer thinks so......Mother Nature's masked thieves......A raccoon raided and killed a batch of broiler chickens at "Just a Few Acres Farm" RUclips channel. He caught it afterward with a live trap
A bullet 😂
Is that fruit at the beginning the giant butternut?
Yes, there's one fruit on that first plant currently.
The same thing happened to me on my giant sunflower seeds I ordered from you. I have 3 in a raised bed that I have an in ground worm hut and they are growing a few inches evert 24 hours and the leaves are massive. I planted 3 more in a raised bed with no worm hut and they are 1/3 the size. I attributed it to the worm hut. I also started the seeds indoors and transplanted them. All this to say I don’t know why starting them indoors would make a difference in the growth. Your thoughts?
I don't know why transplanting would make a difference. But I've seen photos of the same exact seeds growing monsters in West Virginia from the guy who sent them to us. Very odd.
When growing a giant pumpkin does it matter where the fruit is on the vine? End of the vine, center or closer to the main plant?
I don't think it matters much. We plan to let a few fruits develop and then prune to only one. We'll pick the one that looks the best and that is also the most accessible. If it's in a tight spot, it might not be a good one to choose to leave on the plant.
Just about every grower wants to get a fruit 10+ feet out on the main. If you can, 13 to 16 feet out is probably best. A few growers actually cut the vine after the fruit, but most just let it keep growing as long as possible. At some point all of the vines are "terminated" except the main... the consensus is that if the main is growing then the plant will continue to pump "growth hormones" and the fruit will grow for a longer time.
Mine produced like crazy this year, but had a gang mentality and we're violent. They're dead now.
I’m trying to raise squash to sell there skin is so delicate they get scratched from the burrs on the stems any advice?
Yeah that's always an issue with squash. The GrandPrize variety does well for us and the skin holds up pretty well.
HOW AND WHEN DOES ONE DO A.SECOND CROP OF CORN!!!! PLEASE GIVE US SOME CLUES
If you've got good irrigation, you can plant corn now and again in August.
Isn't it too late to plant sunflowers - daylength sensititve....
Nah. We can plant them now through September down here.
Third branch cut off? Lol. I guess I'll get in trouble for saying this but I'm thinking that maybe you talk funny. Sorry sorry. Lol. Great blessings everyone, everywhere.
The giant pumpkin growers call it a "tertiary" branch. Just trying to keep up with their lingo. lol
@@LazyDogFarm oh. uTube doesn't have a button to use sound to open a dictionary. I probably never said I'm disabled. So can't work phone easily. Sorry getting sidetracked. I'll have to edit this later.
My squash got hit by the borer bugs. *$%^& %@#%&*
It happens to the best of us!
5+ minutes into the video and not one thing about squash... MOST ALL YOUR VIDEOS ARE LIKE THIS... I'm done good by... Unsubscribed...
Uhmm.. sorry friend.. but your ignorance is showing. The Seminole pumpkin is a squash type variety.. moreso than an actual pumpkin variety. The butternut squash is definitely a squash. Now I'm sure if there is a specific type of variety that you need information on I'm sure he would be glad to point you in the right direction