Giant Pumpkin Seeds

Pumpkins are great to grow on the allotment or in the garden. You can grow pumpkins for Halloween, for cooking with or you can grow them for fun and see who can actually grow a giant pumpkin. Have a completion with friends and family and see who can grow the largest pumpkin. Here in this article, we will be sharing how to grow large pumpkins from giant pumpkin seeds. Get your children involved they will absolutely love doing this.

Allotment and Kitchen Garden Book

Are you starting an allotment or planning on growing your own fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in a kitchen garden? If so we highly recommend the book Allotment Month By Month. This does exactly what it does on the cover to help you with what you should be doing in the allotment and kitchen garden each month. Below you can see the link for Amazon where you can purchase the book directly. This book is extremely popular with all allotment holders as you will read in the reviews:-

You can check out all the allotment and kitchen garden books we recommend here.

Giant Pumpkin Seed Varieties

There are quite a few varieties of Giant pumpkin seed varieties that you can try growing on the allotment or in the garden. Just remember pumpkins can create massive leaves and vines so be prepared for them to take over your allotment and garden, ideally each pumpkin plant needs around an 8ft area.

Here we share with you some of the pumpkin varieties that you can try growing and experimenting with. We also provide you with the link so you can purchase them.

Atlantic Giant

Try growing these Atlantic Giant Pumpkins and see how big you can grow them. Below you can find tips on how to grow a giant pumpkin.

Pumpkin Mammoth Gold

Mammoth Pumpkin are obviously named after the size that they grow to. How big will you grow your mammoth pumpkins.

How to grow a giant pumpkin

Once you have purchased your giant pumpkin seeds you can now try your green fingers at growing a giant pumpkin.

When to sow giant pumpkin seeds

To sow giant pumpkin seeds this needs to be done in Early April. Sow each seed in a pot of compost (multipurpose). They need to be kept indoors in a room of around 24 degrees to get them to germinate. The giant pumpkin seeds will germinate quite fast and once they start growing they will grow fast. When the pumpkin plants out grow the pots they can be transplanted into bigger pots of multi purpose compost.

When the chance of frost has started to pass start taking your plants outdoors to harden them off. Take them back indoors at night when the temperature drops. When the frosty mornings have finished you can now plant them outdoors in the garden.

How to plant your giant pumpkin plants.

About a fortnight before planting your pumpkins outdoors you need to prepare the soil for them. Dig a hole a spade depth and fill with compost or well rotted organic matter. Add some fish, blood and bone fertilizer to the soil also.

You can now put your pumpkin into its a new bed to start growing.

When you are planting your pumpkin plants out you need to leave a massive 8ft between the plants. This is because the plants can grow wild and massive and that’s just the leaves on the pumpkin plant.

How to look after your giant pumpkin plants

The most important part of growing your pumpkins is to look after them. They will require your love and attention to get them nice and big.

You will need to feed your pumpkins once every fortnight with a liquid feed. You can use feed like Miracle Grow or you could even make a comfrey feed.

The main key to great growing pumpkins is to keep the area weed free. Pumpkins will not like competing for nutrition with the weeds or for the water.

When you have 3 pumpkins growing on the plant you need to take off all the other flowers that grow on the plant. The reason for this is because you don’t want any more to grow on the plant. you want the plant to put in the concentration into growing the 3 on the plant. Any more pumpkins and they will not grow big.

When your pumpkin starts to grow lift it up and either put it on straw or on some wood so that the bottom of the pumpkin does not rot. You need to make sure that the plant and the pumpkin is protected against slugs as they will like to eat into the pumpkin.

Keep the pumpkin plants watered well in warm weather as they will need it to help them swell. Just make sure that you don’t water around the stem as this can cause it to rot.

Now is the fun part – see how big you can actually grow your pumpkin!

We hope that you have found this article useful and you can now go away and grow your giant pumpkin seeds. You can find more articles here for growing fruit and vegetables.