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The ultimate guide for growing pumpkins | Gardening Tips & Allotment Advice Podcast
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Nov 14, 2024
🌱 The Ultimate Guide for Growing Pumpkins! Whether you're dreaming of Halloween showstoppers or tasty homegrown squash, this is your go-to guide for pumpkin success! 🎃✨ In this episode, I cover everything from choosing the right variety and sowing seeds to feeding, pruning, and harvesting your best crop yet. Have you grown pumpkins before? Share your top tip! #GrowYourOwnPumpkins #PumpkinGuide #AllotmentLife #GardeningPodcast #UKGardener #AutumnHarvest #PumpkinTips
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do appreciate you all and thank you for
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my gardening journey and as I said over
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the next few podcasts and episodes I'm
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going to be sharing tips and advice on
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getting started on an lotman tips just
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general tips and advice and also tips
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and advice on what I do to try and get
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better vegetables
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and get a better quality of
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vegetable So today we're going to be
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talking about growing pumpkins yes pumpk
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pumpkins everybody loves to see how big
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they can grow a pumpkin and not last
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year but the year before I managed to
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grow quite a big pumpkin myself and get
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a quite a heavy one it was that big that
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I took it to my local pub where I do my
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quiz night and they made pumpkin soup
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for
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everybody and it was absolutely
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delicious like I said a lot of the stuff
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that I grow sometimes I give it away and
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share it out with other people as I
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don't get to eat it all myself rather
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than it go to waste I'd like other
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people to enjoy it so we got this
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massive pumpkin the other year and I'm
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hoping to try and get another big one
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this year and we are going to give it a
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good go and the way that you get a good
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siiz pumpkin is that obviously they need
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the pollination for the pollination of
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the flower uh to get the pumpkin growing
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in the first place but it's obviously
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down to keep feeding them on a regular
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basis I'll feed mine once twice a week
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get by giving it some plant food or
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tomite as obviously the pumpkin needs
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the food to help make it grow and
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obviously it needs its water as well but
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you've got to be careful with watering
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pumpkins as you can cause base rot on
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the stalk so sometimes the best thing to
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do is stick plant pot at the side of it
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in the ground and water into the plant
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pot that way it Waters down into the
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roots rather than watering the stem
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where it can cause the rotting of the
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stem and then if the stem rots off then
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you've lost the full plant which you
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don't want whatsoever you need to
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protect it at all costs and get it good
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and
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growing now another thing is that
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sometimes if you wanted a big big
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pumpkin it's best not to grow many
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pumpkins on the plant because if there's
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like four or five pumpkins on the plant
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the plant doesn't know which one to put
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all the effort into so you'll just get
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like General smallish size pumpkins off
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them whereas if you're wanted a big one
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maximum pumpkins on the plan is about
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two at least two or three and then you
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will get a good size pumpkin on it
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obviously I've been saying about feeding
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the pumpkin I've fed it I'm feeding it
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some uh produce called boost by Westland
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I've just created a video on that it
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should be on my YouTube either today or
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in a couple of days so stay tuned for
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that and I'll show you what I've made
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and how I look after my pumpkins I've
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also put some chicken feed chicken
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pellets around him as well as chicken
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pellets break down over for a few months
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they'll last about 3 months so I'll put
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them down a couple of times up until the
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rip and you've got to be careful with
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like chicken pallets because if you get
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them on the leaves they'll burn the
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leaves and you'll end up burning the
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plant so you need to make sure they're
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around the base of the plant not too
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close to the stem as I say you don't
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want to burn the stem so just place them
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around the bottom and when it rains it
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will water them and feed them at the
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same same time so that's another good
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way to keep them fed and
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growing another good tip what I did as
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well last year it's that as pumpkins
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grow they'll end up sitting on the soil
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and you don't want that you want the
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pumpkins to be sat on something because
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if they sat on the soil they could get
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wet they could get damp they could rot
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and that is the last thing that you want
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to happen so what I do is I've got some
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old roof tiles
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the pieces are slight and I just rest
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the pumpkin on the slight so that it's
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not touching the soil that way it'll
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stop it not not let it rot and you will
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get a good pumpkin and it just lifts it
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off the ground a bit better so then
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hopefully it protects it and you'll get
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a beautiful
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pumpkin obviously pumpkins are usually
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ready around the end of October the
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beginning of November
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and you don't want to leave them on the
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plant when the frost is due if the frost
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is due it would cause the pumpkin to
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either rot or explode and that is the
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last thing you want so make sure you're
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keeping on on them temperatures as well
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obviously we're safe around now because
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we're not going to get Frost now
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hopefully or
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snow but yeah stay checking of those
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temperatures towards the end of October
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November as you don't want them to get
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Frost and go mushy so when it's about
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time cut them off pick them off store
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them in a cool place not a hot place
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cool place as again it can cause them to
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rot if it's hot so store them somewhere
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safe so that is our tips for growing
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pumpkins make sure you feed them on a
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regular basis I I'll give them food
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twice a week also put some chicken pets
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around the B to give them uh feed over a
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time and to improve the soil and look
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after them give them your full attention
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keep an IR talk to them talk to your
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plants say come on pumpkin grow
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big you must think I'm mad but it does
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work trust me so like I said I've got a
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YouTube video coming out on my pumpkins
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and showing you how I've done my
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pumpkins so stay tuned for that if
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you're not following me on YouTube do
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give me a follow there's lots of new
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videos coming out at the moment and I
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hope that you enjoyed it I'll start
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sharing lots of photos of my pumpkins on
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my Instagram as well so that you can
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stay tuned and see how big we can
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actually grow a pumpkin this year
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hopefully we'll get a Whopper fingers
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crossed and hopefully I'll be sharing it
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with my local pub again so they can make
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me some delicious soup so stay tuned for
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that so until next time's episode
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