Protect your Pumpkins!!! Essential gardening tips for your pumpkin patch
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2023
- Protect those pumpkins. Today we will go over a sure fire method to prevent rot on your pumpkins and squash. Protecting your pumpkin bottom is crucial to grow in a giant pumpkin.
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Wow thanks for your smart garden ideas & tips , very helpful , thanks ,stay connected Have a nice day
Thanks so much!! Glad you enjoyed it!! What are you growing?
Thank you so much this is helpful for our pumpkins
No problem glad you liked it!! Thanks 😊
I am growing z dills Atlantic giant by accident really. I thought just grow a larger size for short seasons NOT SO I FOUND OUT! Hand pollened 2 took outa 3. Hardly Any Sun to s of rain here in Anchorage. So today i am hanging 2 of my MJ lites over em speed up the growth. About the size of a grapefruit. Also i am in Fabric grow bags on a balcony faces south. Wish me luck. Your Vids Vety Very Helpful!
If you’re up in Alaska you’re running out of season fast so best of luck to you hopefully you get a big one!!!
Really like the looks of the 2365!
Yeah it looks nearly perfect for 17 days in!! Thanks 😊
Thank you for all these step by step videos. Very helpful!
You’re welcome I’m glad you’re enjoying them and hopefully it helps you up your skill level💪🎃
Wonderful video.
Thanks so much!! I appreciate it very much 🎃
I’m watching this while I’m out in my garden! Lol thanks perfect timing!
Love this!! Thanks so much!! Grow’em Big!!
@@GardenofGiants 95 degrees in my pumpkin patch. I pollinated another pumpkin three days ago and it looks like she took! But the plant has made it to the lawn! So now I do what I can to manage the plant in grass!
Make sure you bury the nodes to get the roots down and they’ll go below where the grass roots are and pull up the nutrients…. Only bad part about grass is it tends to hold humidity and moisture which is the summer goes on could be a bad thing…. But just do the best you can do with what situation you have to work with
Another great video, very timely, about 2 weeks behind you, helps me prepare
Thanks I appreciate it and best of luck to you this season😊🎃
Thank you, Chris, this is very helpful. Was wondering how to elevate it and keep it protected. Looks like I'll be going to Home Depot.
Your welcome Barry!! Best of luck this season!!
Thanks for doing these videos
No problem glad you are enjoying them!!! Thanks 😊
thank you chris you have a nice pumpkin good luck to you
Thanks Julien I appreciate it and the best of luck to your season!!
@@GardenofGiants thanks chris
@gardenofgiants I see you moved your vine massive amount to make that s curve. I was under the impression this took several days! Did you also cut the nearest two secondary’s next to the pumpkin? Did you have another person help you make that final leap onto board thanks
Thanks for watching, it is typically better to move vines over the course of several days…. It was 91° one I did it and the vines were very easy to move so I just decided to go for it it helps in a really long and not read it down they actually seem to move quite easy…. Vine snapping generally happen when it’s cooler and you have tension on the vines…. tension is caused from the vine being rooted down or stuck in place and then moving it to much one way or the other.
I ended up leaving the secondaries next to the pumpkins on all the pumpkin plants.
I had my daughter help simply push the pink foam board in place but as you seen in the video I slide the mill fabric on….. i’ll tell you right now placing a pumpkin on its groin platform is definitely a two person job three people would probably be even better.
That same foam board in Canada is 60 dollars....what gives?? Anyway, I couldn't find the mill fabric for an affordable price. On a Facebook page someone suggested a trampoline mat! Picked up a free trampoline, hoping to use that this year.
Trampoline match should work just fine…. Wow if foam board was that much I would definitely not use it. Mill fabric is definitely tough to find.
Looking good, i think with the heat you guys in US are around 3 weeks ahead of us in the UK. I fertilised my first two females this morning on primary and secondary vine. Think i need to load up some more soil on them to get more roots in - is this an increase in the risk of rotting the vine though? I notice you have a lot more than I've dared! Do you unload the soil after youre confident it's rooted?
Also i have some tertiary vines trying to come out an cross over the secondaries, do you ever prune these? I reckon youve got a monster on your hands there already!
Be careful how much soil you put on, I put enough on to get roots and then with rain and sprinklers (when I water the soil naturally comes off the vine) if your soil drains very well you can put more on, If your soil is heavy and does not drain well just put enough to create contact with the soil to get the big taproots out.
As far as tertiary vines go trim them off unless you need to fill in a part of the patch.
Hope this helps any other questions, keep asking!!
Nice work, you made what can be a difficult process look doable. Thank you for showing all the steps involved in this process. Do you ever have problems with gophers or voles eating away the styrofoam pad? Thanx again, Randy
Hi Randy, Thanks and I’m glad you enjoyed the video, The foam is actually quite durable but yet light weight, I have been using it six years and I have not had an animal even chew one piece off as far as I have been able to tell. Hope this helps!!
Chris Brown
Nice video! Looks good
Thanks so much!!🎃
Thanks Chris for this very informative video. You seem to be the “go to” guy for information as I heard your name mentioned by other growers.
Have you entered any weigh off competitions as yet? I would love to see your pumpkins.
Thank you so much I really appreciate you watching the videos I’m glad you like them!! I have not entered any competitions yet my first one is at the end of August and then I have some in September and October and I will be sure to video all of them!! And as always any questions you have with gardening or giant growing always feel free to ask!!
Nicely done. When you pollinate a quality pumpkin plant to keep those good genetics do you pollinate with male flowers from the same plant or a completely different plant?
Actually it’s completely up to you and either way can produce amazing results…. Say you have two plants growing both with desire genetics and you’d like to cross those 2 then you can do a cross on them, on the other hand if you have a seed that has very desired traits and you wanna lock those traits and you can self the pumpkin.
@GardenofGiants thank you for replying I actually grow zuchinni but the same rules apply generally. I was just worried about inbreeding depression from selfing which may not even be a thing with squad plants but even if that does happen the amazing genes should still be in some of those seeds.
That’s awesome that you grow zucchini have you ever tried any giant zucchini or a Marrow?
@GardenofGiants if the genetics I have are what I think they are I'm sure about to. This thing is going absolutely bananas I'm going to self it and lock it in.
Awesome 💪
is adding a wood pallet under the board beneficial at all, or is that more overkill? i ask because i am getting ready to put my support and sand down
The only problem with a wood pallet is if the pumpkin gets too big and starts to grow off the side it could become an issue with the pumpkin potentially splitting also with the wood pallet you give an awfully large space for a creature like a mouse to live what you don’t want…. Generally speaking we wait to put our pumpkins onto the pallets at harvest time a day or two before the weighoff.
@@GardenofGiants oooo thank you. I hadn't considered that
No problem!! Thanks for watching and Grow’em Big!!
What insecticide or pesticide do you use. I didn’t notice any holes in any of your leaves. Mines chalk full of them. Been tying Neem oil. Doesn’t seem to work.
Yeah the first couple years I tried Neem oil until I realized that it’s a joke of a product and the bugs simply laugh at you….. I wish it worked because I have like a gallon and a half of it still.
I now use Imidacloprid Which is the same active ingredient found in Advantix that they use on dogs and cats to keep fleas and ticks off….. it works really good protects your plant from the inside out and you only have to apply once a month.
So I went ahead and got one of those boards and some sand. This is my first year growing an Atlantic giant or any pumpkin for that matter lol. So I appreciate you getting back to me so quick! So far the one I decided to keep is already bigger than a standard pumpkin so we’re getting pretty excited.
Hi, What is Mill Fabric? Where can buy? Thanks😊
Mill fabric is a “used” piece of conveyor belt material usually from a Papermill. It is very hard to find and the one gentleman I know that sells it does not have any left for the year…. But stay tuned as soon as he does have some I will let everyone know.
Can eagle 20 cause the new growth to be on yhe greener side. Or is that something to do with my fertilizing combination. I noticed after i applied the eagle 20 that the new growth looked bight green. But i also applied fertilizer the same time
I have never noticed it greener after sprain eagle 20 alone.
@@GardenofGiants hmm ok. Maybe it the fertilizer I noticed my carrots that I fertilize looks little weird. I think I'll hold off for a little while.
reduce the damn volume on the music
The volume is controlled on your computer not on my end unfortunately otherwise I would have it as low as possible.👍👍👍
I never had a problem with the music
As far as your career are you a teacher?..if not you missed your calling...
I am not a teacher but oh how I would love to be a science teacher😊 I work retail and a big box store… crazy hours and crazy customers😂😂
No money in teaching