Pumpkin Experiment
Friend of mine had a bunch of pumpkins that are beyond the stage of decoration. She dropped them off at my house yesterday.
I spent the day digging holes, scoring dirt in the field and smashing pumpkins. We are experimenting to see if the seeds will produce vines and fruit next year.
Even if nothing grows the goats and deer will have a nice snack for the next few days. I didn't cover any seeds with dirt. I believe they need to dry out first.
The remainder of the day I cut back the privet that tries to overtake the driveway and winterized the camper. Trying to get a few things knocked out before my surgery on Thursday.
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The critters around our place here in Michigan love pumpkins and there probably wouldn't be any seeds left to grow after they got done. The only experiments I ever conducted with pumpkins involved various firearms and copious quantities of various calibers of ammunition. Bob
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You're gonna have pumpkin vines everywhere next year.
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nothing to lose and feeding the wildlife to me that's a win /win
some time back I worked with a fellow what ever he took a liking too he would go all in ( sky diving, running weight lifting really what ever caught his attention) one project over several years was growing the huge pumpkins (as in the 400 to 1000 pound kind ) I remember it was amazing what work went into just trying to get them that big starting with special seeds and baby sitting them every day I don't remember him ever winning any events but he did grow some huge pumpkins
as for me well each year my wife will plant a few just for Halloween nothing special, she had a couple that I would guess were 20 to 30 pounds and countless small gourds but she just planted the seeds and let nature run its course
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Around these parts if you don't want to deal with your punkin after Halloween just leave it where it sits. After awhile a moose will show up and eat it. Works every time.
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I busted the pumpkins and gourds, scooped out the seeds and distributed them in the torn up dirt and holes I dug. Hoping the rodents don't eat the seeds. Critters on hoof will be dewormed if they eat the seeds, 😆.
Oh, and vines everywhere would be awesome.
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have done the same thing here only the odd thing is the deer here in the city wil eat the pumpkins, if I take em out to the cabin in the country they will lay in the woods till they rot, the raccoons and possums won't even touch them.......
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That's how we grow tomato's here in our garden, me, my Dad, Grand-Paw on down the genealogy line. In the fall or winter squeeze them until they bust and if they're dried out just crumble them up and drop them in the hole and forget about'em. Think about it, that's natures way of reproduction, the way it was intended 😊
redneckandy: 30637739910299/comments/30637746725915
You're gonna have pumpkin vines everywhere next year.
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BobJudy: 30637739910299/comments/30637703502235
The critters around our place here in Michigan love pumpkins and there probably wouldn't be any seeds left to grow after they got done. The only experiments I ever conducted with pumpkins involved various firearms and copious quantities of various calibers of ammunition. Bob
Shotgun ammunition of various pellets
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hillbille: 30637739910299/comments/30637755543963
have done the same thing here only the odd thing is the deer here in the city wil eat the pumpkins, if I take em out to the cabin in the country they will lay in the woods till they rot, the raccoons and possums won't even touch them.......
hillbille, city folks seem to be willing for a handout. a country boy will survive.--------Ray
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Shotgun ammunition of various pellets
My most surprising damage wise was a 52 gr Speer HP 223 out of a 14" Contender. It would literally disintegrate the front half of a medium size pumpkin and I never found an exit hole. Bob
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Up here in New York on the Vermont border, we leave the pumpkins in the back lot. Critters eat em, and for the last three years we have pumpkins growing.
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I think most fruits and vegetables are hybrids, and don't produce fruit from their seeds.
We had some pumpkins on the ground outside our garage. Grandson "killed" them with a sword I gave him, slashing them to ribbons.
Seeds germinated and vines came up. The vines produced blooms but no fruit.
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Ditto with most tomatoes, nunn. Most you'll get are bushes.
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Pumpkin is good for Dogs too. It keeps the old bootie gland happy. Get the seeds out of the goop and feed them the goopy inside with their regular dog food maybe a spoon full a day.
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