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Since they, like other vegetables, are annuals they will essentially remove themselves as they die and shrivel away. But most people would consider dying and dead plants unsightly. Unless there is a disease, you could always just turn the plants into the ground to decompose in place.
I found this info & i guess ill only have 2 pumpkins this season. Unfortunately where i planted them it dont get 6 hrs a day of direct sunlight. Maybe next yr ill plant in a better location.
I just expected more. http://www.informeddemocracy.com/pumpkin/growing.html
We've had some bad drought and heat conditions and I had written off the cemetary pumpkins. But I decided to check up on them and brought 2 gallons of water along. I was surprised they were still alive. They aren't thriving, they look stunted, but a few were flowering. I watered them and since then we've had some rain. None of the sugar pumpkins and squash I planted later came up so these Connecticut field pumpkins will have to suffice. Pumpkins are pretty tough customers.
In the home garden, we have two sugar pumpkins doing great and one butternut squash looks to be doing pretty well. I water those and they're in a good sunny spot. Other squash and pumpkins have it a little tougher location wise but hopefully they'll produce something.
I might try watermelon next yr. I just regret never planting anything since i have been here over 12 yrs. I dont have a green thumb. According to this info it takes 3 months for the pumpkins to mature. That means by sept ill have 2 fully grown pumpkins. I think i planted 1 month to early. I mainly want the pumpkins for display outside during oct. I read somewhere else it takes 4 months to mature. Anyways...halloween is only 94 days away & i would love to visit salem, mass during oct. Maybe someday. http://halloween.whipnet.net/pumpkin...kin.patch.html
Its just a shame i only will have 2. One is grape sized but i doubt it if it will survive cause its towards the end of the vine. From what i read they starve from lack of water cause they are so far up. The vine is quite long. This has been a intresting experience for me but i will have no pumpkins to give away. I plan to keep one outside in front of my place & one inside. Thanks for all the info & i rep all replys (good ones) to my threads.
I bought some seeds for Sunshine Hybrid squash, which look like pumpkins but are a delicious squash. I walked out in the donkey pasture to where the remains of last year's round hay bale was mounded on the ground. I scraped away some hay, dropped a seed and continued around the mound for all 10 seeds. 6 of them sprouted, with 4 doing very well. We have had a very dry hot summer so occasionally I throw some water on them. I had to pull off some squash bugs and leaves with eggs, but so far they look good. There is lots of good rotted donkey manure mixed in the hay, so fertilizer is not a problem! I have a bunch of flowers now, and hopefully in a couple months will be picking squash!
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