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How's your patch?
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:38 am
by MacPhantom
Anybody got a pumpkin patch growin'? How's yours doing? Got it all planted? Did you start your seeds early and then transplant the vines, or sow directly into the ground? Getting enough rain? Getting any blossoms yet? Are you growing pie pumpkins, or carvers? Did you plant any of those giant pumpkins?
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:27 am
by Pumpkin_Man
I'm a bit late this year, but I am going to try my luck again in early July at planting a pumpkin patch in the hopes that the crows, squirls and rabbits won't be quite as humgry.
Mike
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:32 am
by witchy
I've tried planting them several times with no luck, the squirrels & rabbits keep'd eating them!! 
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:35 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
Witchy, have you ever stopped to think that Peter Cottentail and Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater might be the same guy??? (narf narf) I have exactly the same problem, as does everyone else in my down. Very few flower or vegitable gardens can survive the onslaught of crows when the seeds are planted. When the vines, or whatever of the seeds that survived sprout up, the rabbits and the squirls devour them faster then a group of hungry teenagers can devour a pizza. Every year I plant in May. The vines come up, some times I get blossems, but then Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater comes along with a few of his buddies, and that's the end of it. It's the same way for my neighbor who has a fondness for fresh tomatos. She moved all of her gardening in doors, because of the critters and because it's easier to mow the grass.
The crows in Dwight Illinois are also incredible. Late in the evening, and in the very early pre dawn hours of the morning, the sky is just full of them, cawing and flapping. It's like "The Birds."
Mike
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:14 pm
by witchy
Mike it never occurred to me they were the same, but I think your onto something!! Ha ha ha!! 
I bet I have 30 squirrels & just as many bunny's, don't get me wrong they are very cute and all but sometimes...... 
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:32 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
Yep, some times they can be a problem, but then that's what nature is all about. I suppose if I moved back to Chicago, where the yards are smaller, there are fewer trees, and fewer places for thos animals to nest then it wouldn't be a problem, but I would never give up my beautiful 100 year old haunted house in the first town I lived in as an adult, that I liked.
Besides, I can allways try to grow my pumpkins in flower pots, like my neighbor does with her tomatos if I wanted to keep the cute little critters at bay.
Mike
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:24 am
by Belladonna
I have never tried to grow my own pumpkins. Don't shoot, don't shoot!
I would love to try it, though.
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:56 pm
by witchy
Bella you should try it!!! 
I have my tomato's in flower pots too, I don't know about pumpkins in them!! 
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:15 am
by ilovemichaelmyers
I would love to grow my own pumpkins but everytime I try to plant anything it dies because of the extreme heat, it just doesn't work for me here.
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:37 am
by Midnite Shadow
It will here
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:53 am
by ilovemichaelmyers
Midnite Shadow wrote:It will here
We can plant them together
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:40 am
by Midnite Shadow
We will have an awesome pumpkin patch...but yeah, we need a farm I think LOL. Or at least a place out in the country.
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:44 pm
by Pumpkin_Man
The vines do have a tendency to take over your whole yard, so you have to keep your pumpkin patch from getting out of controll. I had one in my yard back when I was a kid and we lived over on 111th and Drake. It was really nice and we did actualy get a couple of usable pumpkins from it, but the vines crept into our neighbors flower garden and sort of took over and she was not very happy about it. To boot, none of the vines in her yeard produced any pumpkins. So I gave her one as a "peace offering," and promised that I would not let my vines invade her yard again.
I never tried to grow a pumpkin in a flower pot, but I would love to. I think it will grow okay as long as you use good potting soil, plenty of water and plant food. I'm not an expert, however.
Mike
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:49 pm
by Andybev01
Poor pitiful me, not so much as a carrot got planted this year.
We're still getting the place in compliance for the fire department.
Re: How's your patch?
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:21 pm
by witchy
Andy do you have lots of fires out by you?