This year: 1
Next year: hopefully at least 2-3 good ones.
Just picked today, about the size of a basketball. Firm, healthy, and a brilliant shade of orange. This is the lone pumpkin that came to fruit after planting 2 plants that took over a large portion of my garden. Let me tell you...what a pain! We had lots of little pumpkins start, only to have the plant drop them off the vine. Online research indicates that my plants were maybe not getting fertilized.
So, here are my lessons learned:
* plant in June, just like I did. I may have even planted them too early. I can't remember if I planted them in late May or June. Either way, I picked this baby today and we're still over a month away from Halloween...so maybe a little later would be okay.
* plant in one area. The two plants I had grew in different directions and were separated by corn, yellow squash, and lots of other plants. I think this may have contributed to the fertilization problem. I can only assume that by some stroke of luck maybe an insect out there randomly helped fertilize the one pumpkin we got. At any rate, I think planting them in one area will help. Also, next year I'm going to do a better job of reining them in, because these plants like to grow everywhere.
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