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Post by benmnwi on Jun 3, 2020 17:39:34 GMT -6
Today we planted about 1/2 acre of pumpkins for the deer and us. I planted the deer's portion in a food plot strip. The 2 rows of pumpkins are in a 200 yard row that borders a corn plot and future brassicas. We planted them close together within the row, perhaps 5 feet apart on average. I want them to send vines into the corn since it looks a little thin in spots and tight spacing within the row should send them outward. We planted them by hand in soybean stubble that I sprayed last week. I might go back tonight and plant some pumpkins right in the corn field thin spots for added insurance.
The pumpkins for us were planted closer to the house with some squash, watermelon, cantaloupe and some other random leftover seed. If we get some timely rains the pumpkins could pump out some serious tonnage in a solid deer killing location. Hopefully they stay there and leave the pumpkins and squash by my house alone.
No pictures yet, but I'll try to take some tonight to follow up.
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Jun 3, 2020 18:50:48 GMT -6
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Post by badgerfowl on Jun 3, 2020 18:50:48 GMT -6
My dad planted 6 hills in his garden as an experiment. I can’t imagine doing a half acre! Hope it works out! Always hear good things about them.
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Post by honker on Jun 3, 2020 19:12:49 GMT -6
What does a 1/2 acre of pumpkin seeds run you?
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Post by biglakebass on Jun 3, 2020 20:51:46 GMT -6
What does a 1/2 acre of pumpkin seeds run you? Free Scrape em out of punkins from halloween and dry them out.
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Post by honker on Jun 3, 2020 21:17:39 GMT -6
What does a 1/2 acre of pumpkin seeds run you? Free Scrape em out of punkins from halloween and dry them out. Well shit, long day, didn’t think that one through
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 3, 2020 21:36:42 GMT -6
I bought some Connecticut pumpkin seeds online for about $10, but most of my pumpkin seeds come from the prior year's Halloween pumpkins. They are literally free if you scrape them out and dry them in newspaper for a week.
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Post by biglakebass on Jun 3, 2020 21:51:39 GMT -6
Be sure to get some Atlantic Giant seeds. then harvest them each fall and supply yourself with seeds.
Biggest I got was around 200 lbs. And the deer love them.... Takes a lot of effort to keep the deer off them though through the late summer and fall.
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 3, 2020 22:20:07 GMT -6
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 3, 2020 22:25:39 GMT -6
The first picture is the just sprayed strip in front of the atv where the pumpkins were planted. To the left is an oat/pea/buckwheat cover crop where brassicas will go in a month and to the right is a corn strip. The main draw in this plot is the soybeans I'll leave standing, but corn and pumpkins can't hurt.
The second picture is where my corn food plot was really thin looking because of my crappy planting skills, so I planted pumpkins by hand in the void spots. I wasn't planning on spraying the corn strip again, so it can't hurt anything by planting pumpkins in the openings.
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 3, 2020 22:31:21 GMT -6
Be sure to get some Atlantic Giant seeds. then harvest them each fall and supply yourself with seeds. Biggest I got was around 200 lbs. And the deer love them.... Takes a lot of effort to keep the deer off them though through the late summer and fall. I need to try that. I bought a $2 seed pack at fleet farm last year and hit 100 pounds, so I'd like to beat my record-
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 4, 2020 2:07:14 GMT -6
Pumpkins, like many other things, just do not get much use in this area.
If we get rain, we have better feed.
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Post by Catscratch on Jun 4, 2020 16:36:48 GMT -6
I've grown a lot of pumpkins the last couple of yrs. I like the big ones and have grown some 100lb's. Not motivated this yr though. Awful lot of work fighting squash bugs here. Look good one day, then a completely dead vine the next. My did didn't eat them the first couple of yrs but grew a taste for them. They can eat a pretty big pile of them in a week.
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Post by smallchunk on Jun 4, 2020 21:54:33 GMT -6
Looks good, Ben! I planted previously sprayed "patches" in between apple tree rows in my clover and pushed in 4 seeds per patch. We'll see how it works, not going to put too much work into them this year.
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Post by benmnwi on Jun 8, 2020 21:23:25 GMT -6
the pumpkins germinated quickly in the warm soil.
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Post by honker on Jun 9, 2020 2:51:05 GMT -6
Looks good, Ben! I planted previously sprayed "patches" in between apple tree rows in my clover and pushed in 4 seeds per patch. We'll see how it works, not going to put too much work into them this year. Soon to be Mini-Chunk is the only pumpkin you will be focusing on by harvest time anyway SC.
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