Preparing to Plant Your Pumpkins
Pumpkins come in four basic growing types: vining, semi-bush, bush, and miniature. They all need lots of sun, lots of space, and lots of water. …
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Preparing Your Home Garden to Welcome Pumpkins
Before you pick up your first seed packet, make sure your garden area is set up to welcome pumpkins. The first thing you’ll need to do is test your soil; …
Pumpkin Terminology
Pumpkins come in so many colors, sizes, and textures that it helps to have the lingo down before you decide on the pumpkins you want to grow. You’ll also sound …
Types of Pumpkins
There are nine main species within the Cucurbita, or gourd, genus; they’re all part of the Cucurbitaceae family—cucumber. Cousins of your favorite baking pumpkins are squashes and gourds. …
Pumpkinpalooza—How to Start Your Own Pumpkin Patch
In this month’s Food Gardening Magazine, you get everything you need to know about growing pumpkins—the special Halloween item that’s both a food and a decoration. And planting and harvesting …
Our Great Giant Pumpkin
It all started when my newly minted husband, Paul, and I bought our first house. We stood on the back porch, surveying our empty yard. There were no trees, no …
Eight Volunteer Pumpkins
The day my husband and I moved to our new home in Maryland, I fell off the moving truck and received a severe head injury, not the welcome to …
Swallowtails and Memories
My love of gardening was infused in me by my mother. When I was a child, she got me started growing pumpkins at our California home. When I was in …
Less is More
Since my husband and I lived in an apartment for the first two years of our marriage, the small yard of our first house in the suburbs seemed like vast …
How Many Gardens?
I am not the fanatic gardener in my family. I am merely my husband’s assistant. His cheerleader. And, yes, some-times his critic. He is undeterred. He just keeps planning and …
