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This video shows how to plant pumpkin seeds correctly to give them the best possible start.
I explain the basic preparation, planting method, and simple steps that help seedlings grow stronger and healthier. Starting seeds properly makes a big difference to how well plants develop later.
Ideal for beginners or anyone wanting a reliable way to grow pumpkins successfully.
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hey everybody and welcome to Gardening
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with Ben well today we are going to be
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planting pumpkins i've already got some
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in but they're just the normal jacko
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lantern ones but I'm wanting to try and
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grow some big ones i possibly left it a
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tiny bit too late should have planted
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them in April really or March time but
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we're going to get them sewn and get
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them started and hopefully we get some
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decent sized pumpkins so the variety
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that we're going to be growing are the
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Big Max pumpkins now these are huge
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hopefully so with the enough water and
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enough food hopefully we can get some
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massive pumpkins so we're going to plant
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these in individual pots to start them
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off with so that we don't have to
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transplant them when they get a bit
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bigger uh just saves on uh time and
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effort really because it's busy time of
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year this year potting everything out
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and planting everything up so the less I
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have to do the best and I hate potting
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up it takes forever so I might as well
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plant these in 10 individual pots
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because we've got 10 seeds in them and
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get them started so yeah let's get these
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planted so I've got some decent sized
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pots these ones are good size so they'll
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get to a good size in these pots before
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we plant them out when they're big
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enough so let's get these filled up with
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compost and get the seeds ready to go in
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so we've got all the compost in this is
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Pete free compost that we use and then
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we're going to plant these pumpkin seeds
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in so let's get them out and see how
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many seeds we got sometimes you get more
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than 10 sometimes they let you have an
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extra one for free so let's see how many
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seeds we've got well we've got exactly
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10 seeds they've not given us any extra
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for free disappointed i always love it
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when you get a few extra seeds but yeah
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let's get these in the plant
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pots so there we are we've put all 10 in
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so we usually stand them up rather than
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lay them down so that they can germinate
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straight upwards that's the plant anyway
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it's usually the pointy edge to the top
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when you're planting squash plants so
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yeah now to cover them all over with
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compost there we are all covered over so
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the last job to do is give them a good
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drink of water to get them started and
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germinated so they're all nicely
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drinking the water and hopefully get
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germinated pretty fast but we put our
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secret tip on top if you don't know
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already our secret trick is to put cling
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film over the top they will keep them
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warm they'll keep them moist and they'll
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speed up germination also it'll stop the
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ratties from finding the seeds to eat
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them cuz a booger like that but yeah
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let's get them covered over with cling
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film to get them started
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faster so there we are but we've covered
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them all over with cling film to
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hopefully speed up germination and get
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them started hopefully we're going to
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have a nice warm week this week and it
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will help speed them up so fingers
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crossed within 7 days we should
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hopefully fingers crossed see some
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germination if not it might be about 14
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days but we'll see we'll keep you
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updated so I hope you've enjoyed that
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video of me sewing my pumpkins my big
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max ones and fingers crossed we do get
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some huge pumpkins we'll have to keep
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them watered kept keep them well fed and
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that will help make a nice big pumpkin
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so make sure you stay tuned to see how
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well they get up to date give us a
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follow until next time everyone remember
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keep smiling keep shining and keep
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