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This video explains how to grow pumpkins successfully from planting to harvest. It shows the conditions pumpkins need and how to support healthy plant growth.
The guide covers sowing seeds, spacing, watering, feeding and training vines, along with tips to improve fruit development. It also explains how to care for plants throughout the growing season and recognise when pumpkins are ready to harvest.
If you want a productive crop, this video provides practical beginner-friendly advice for growing pumpkins in a garden or allotment.
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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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