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Post by sd51555 on Sept 10, 2017 10:52:05 GMT -6
Well, I think the deer are getting more than curious about my pumpkins! Did you accidentally step on one to introduce them to it?
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 10, 2017 20:40:45 GMT -6
You dont need to open up a punkin to introduce it to deer.
They just eat eam when they like
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Post by smallchunk on Sept 10, 2017 22:09:51 GMT -6
Nope, it was like that when I walked up to it!
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Post by smallchunk on Oct 1, 2017 21:54:09 GMT -6
It just didn't get warm enough for my pumpkins this year along with planting maybe a week late. Oh well, maybe next year!
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Post by leexrayshady on Oct 9, 2017 15:24:35 GMT -6
ended up with 40 if I remember correctly
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Post by sd51555 on Oct 9, 2017 16:40:21 GMT -6
You're not letting the deer have them?
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Post by leexrayshady on Oct 9, 2017 17:21:08 GMT -6
You're not letting the deer have them? if they were planted in a better location I would, but I mostly planted them for the family kids to take
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Post by Catscratch on Oct 9, 2017 19:45:09 GMT -6
Great haul! I wanted pumpkins like that but very few made it during the hot/dry times. Those look great.
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Post by biglakebass on Oct 9, 2017 21:49:37 GMT -6
I did the punkin patch a few years for the kids. Collateral damage by deer was fine.
Too much work as a deer food source. Never again.
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Post by benmnwi on Oct 20, 2017 11:41:38 GMT -6
I reduced the size of my oversized garden this spring and planted pumpkins to act sort of as a cover crop in the areas I didn't want to keep up. I was too cheap to pay for pumpkin seed packets, so I saved a bunch of seed from last year's Halloween pumpkins and they worked great. My kids liked picking the pumpkins and right now there are about 90 of these pumpkins in my front yard. There's probably 40 more that I just left up there for the deer (the deer will eat the ones in my yard too once they get hungry enough).
I was impressed with the huge number of pumpkins you can grow on a relatively small area. Being able to reach the area with a sprinkler is helpful though since they dry out pretty quickly on sandy soil.
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Post by Catscratch on Oct 20, 2017 12:10:37 GMT -6
I reduced the size of my oversized garden this spring and planted pumpkins to act sort of as a cover crop in the areas I didn't want to keep up. I was too cheap to pay for pumpkin seed packets, so I saved a bunch of seed from last year's Halloween pumpkins and they worked great. My kids liked picking the pumpkins and right now there are about 90 of these pumpkins in my front yard. There's probably 40 more that I just left up there for the deer (the deer will eat the ones in my yard too once they get hungry enough). I was impressed with the huge number of pumpkins you can grow on a relatively small area. Being able to reach the area with a sprinkler is helpful though since they dry out pretty quickly on sandy soil. Pics?
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Post by sd51555 on Oct 20, 2017 19:18:34 GMT -6
I want to see Catscratch overseed a clover plot with awnless winter wheat and then triple crop pumpkins into it in spring.
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Post by Catscratch on Oct 20, 2017 19:41:36 GMT -6
I want to see Catscratch overseed a clover plot with awnless winter wheat and then triple crop pumpkins into it in spring. Funny you should suggest that! I just happened to over seed the clover with Awnless wheat this afternoon, and have pumpkin seed saved for spring.
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Post by benmnwi on Oct 20, 2017 20:23:59 GMT -6
I didn't take any pics when they were growing, but I'll post a picture of some of the pumpkins we picked that we threw in our yard.
It's funny you mentioned double cropping pumpkins because I tried that in half my pumpkin patch. I hoped it would reduce weeds and it worked pretty well. I planted oats in April and then planted pumpkin seeds in hills in the oats in June 1st. Around July I mowed the oats and left the residue to choke out weeds while the pumpkins took over. It wasn't perfect, but it was better than wedding the pumpkin patch by hand.
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Post by smallchunk on Oct 21, 2017 12:37:13 GMT -6
I harvested these ones for decorative purposes a week or two ago. My grandma got a kick out of them! I was down there two days ago and smashed one of the remaining ones. There are like ten more for the deer to eat if they so choose, obviously not a lot to feed deer but will be interesting to see if they eat them. They never have for me before the one being smashed and half eaten earlier this year.
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