We Grew Over 350lbs of Pumpkins in Lousy Dirt (With This One Weird Trick)
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- The pumpkins are rolling in! The melon pit method WORKS - and here's the proof!
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Growing pumpkins is easy. We feed pumpkins for the entire season by digging pits and throwing in meat scraps, ashes, kitchen waste and whatever we can find, then make hills and plant on top, as described in Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting. Planting a pumpkin patch is easy, even on bad ground, if you follow this proven method. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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Thanks for watching! Now we gotta make some pie!
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Pumpkin soup Davey, it’s an Aussie favourite.
I thought I had a patch of loofa gourd starting to grow on my newly mulched yard. Loofa seeds pop up all over the place. But it turns out its Butternut Squash. They look the same apparently. I got the squash from a homeless shelter, they were going bad, so I chopped them in half in my yard before putting them in the compost pile and the rest explains itself. Pretty neat. A happy mistake as Bob Ross would say.
Never grew Butternut Squash before, and have not even fertilized them and they look great.
Amazing you can sit like that with no chair @ 13:50
@@NoNORADon911 He is sitting on the stool that he used when he filmed the individual squashes. Of course, w his sense of humor he positioned his leg so it blocked the stool from view. He reminds me so much of my crazy homeschooled sons, now grown 🤣
@@aurora571000 I know I was joking. I am also guessing he did that on purpose. Somebody had to say something I figured ;)
I came for the weird trick and I stayed for the bassline.
Fun fact: red fleshed watermelons actually have a purple flavor. The more you know.
I've read that Compost Everything book when you made it available online. I was just beginning to Florida garden in a sandy area and didn't have cash for amendments. You got me started! Gratitude!
Excellent - so glad to hear it. Sorry about the flooding there.
''Good times gone and you missed them
What's gone wrong in your system
Things they bounce just like a spalding
What'd you think did you miss your calling
It's so free this kind of feeling
It's like life it's so appealing
When you've got so much to say
It's called gratitude, and that's right''
Beastie Boys
Compost everything is very simple. It's in the name.
I've been doing for years.
Though.. if you compost toxins or walnut trees... Maybe have a long term and short term pile ..
Hello to all of your selves! 😋 that one belly pumpkin is the best pumpkin! 350 lbs! Man that’s alotta pumpkin!
I'm finally getting used to your brand of crazy! You are such a talented and intelligent person. Pretty sure your kids have a great dad.
Your wife has a great sense of humor!
She is a lot of fun - my favorite person.
My wife loves butternut squash (I'm sorta meh), so several months ago I dumped all the seeds of a grocery store variety in a section of my raised beds. Nearly every seed sprouted. One emerged the winner and has been running ever since. While most of my plants have withered under our summer heat (8b/9a), that squash vine looks gorgeous and loves the heat. I have never grown pumpkin before, but it is exhilarating finding a vegetable that not only can endure our summers but actually thrives! I will definitely be planting more butternut in the future.
Did you save the seeds from that champ?
I love how you have turned the abandoned kid toy into your most treasured garden tool.
You mentioned covering the nodes of the pumpkin vine in one of your latest videos and I did cover some of them. I swear if it wasn't for doing that my whole vine would have been destroyed by vine borers. I cut off my losses and the rest are now spreading and staring to flower! Yay! Thanks!
It's amazing. You bet.
Oh my you have a wild panther in your watermelon patch ! And your wife may have eaten a pumpkin seed, Definitely growing something in her belly :)
Real
Panther??
@@introtwerp perhaps I got carried away. May be a black kitten 😸
You describe plants with the same vigor and passion as Jeff Goldblum describing his wife and I'm not sure if that's amazing, enthralling, or creepy but please keep doing it.
I absolutely love the pumpkin pit idea. I’m using that next year. I have a sister variety “Cherokee Tan” if you’re interested I have hundreds of seeds.
Missed the Goodstream but here enjoying seeing you harvest 350 lbs. of yummy Seminole Pumpkins! Loved seeing the clip of the black panther as well! Thanks for sharing David, wishing ya all a great week!
That pumpkin song is great, and I laughed when you threw the watermelon rind made of glass. :P
I LOVE how the seed packets for the Everglades tomato and Seminole pumpkins are decorated! So very awesome!
Wish I could send you a pic of my melon/pumpkin pit pumpkins. Far and away the best things I grew this year thanks to you. I blame the burnt ham.
Email me - david@floridafoodforests.com
My seminoles did great this year, hasn’t been produced the most but whent through Oklahoma’s heat and I have only watered one time because there close together. Also didn’t till the soil where they are.
Also I grew mine on teepees made from large beaches and sticks tied together. Working great
“Put your enimies in the ground”. I love that 🤣🤣🤣🎃
Grew 211 lbs of South Anna butternut from 2 vines last year. They were planted near my cat's grave who died the previous winter. I'm thinking she nourished the vines. South Anna was developed from a cross of Seminole pumpkin x Waltham butternut about 10 years ago by a grower in Virginia. Very sweet. Highly recommend it.
Your pumpkin display at the beginning of your video was precious -- especially the blue one... Congrats on your newest pumpkin!
It’s my first season gardening and it is so therapeutic. I have 3 pumpkin patches. So excited to see everything develop!
I just did the melon pits 2 days ago. I’m really excited to see how it goes. I’d been saving all left overs and in the pit they went. ThankU for all your help. I’m in Central Florida. And need all your knowledge.
Hey Mr. The Good, and plant friends, there is another squash I have grown for 3 or 4 years now. Highly recommend if you are a squash fan. It is called Tetsukabuto, (aka apocalypse squash) that behaves much like the Seminole Pumkin squash Mr. The Good talks about. It must be planted with a C. moschata or C. Maxima for pollination. It is very prolific, and does the thing David talks about where it comes back in the fall for another round of squashing. I planted several C. moschata’s this year with the Tetsukabouto, in far southern Mississippi, and it is performing awesome again. I also had amazing results in western North Carolina. Resistant to blight and bugs. Can find it in Johnny’s catalog.
A second round of pumpkin? I didn't think it would do that. I don't know why I assumed the vine would die after cutting fruit from it.
Thank you for the taste description of the different colors of watermelon. Will definitely keep that in mind when deciding what type of watermelon to buy.
I'm growing pumpkins for the first time this year! I decided to try building hugelkulture mounds to grow them and it's working great so far!
Some really good tips in this vid. Thanks Mr Good. 🙏👌
Getting interest in long term storage food down here in the Karoo now. Your channel is one of the first I started watching some years ago, and still enjoying getting value from it to this day. Kinda bounced in here now because of my pumpkin research (food and feed), and behold, a david video! Thanks! Keep it up.
Surely there can only be one Karoo on this earth.
In South Africa my country?
Living in the UK and am homesick every day for 17 years.
50 years ago my father and I did a night trip through the Karoo on the way to Cape Town.
Beautiful and will always remember the beauty.
Hope I'm on the right page and hope I see the Karoo one day, because I will go back to SA, only 71 now
@@anitaswart. hi Anita. Definitief! The one and the same Karoo. I am sure you'll be visiting here some time. Glad to chat, and hope you're having a good summer over there. Keep well. :)
Pure awesomeness! That’s what I’m gonna work on next year-pumpkins and winter squash! What an inspiration!
Fantastic. They're so much fun to grow.
Oh Man, that was awesome. The best video taking ever. Love the pumpkin show. Now for the rest of this video.
I had a pretty good haul of watermellon,honeydew,cantilope,Armenian cucumbers,pumpkins,spaghetti squash and assorted other squash this year so can't complain. those squash vines go crazy. I saved seeds from all of the above. Tomatos are still producing here in Central Texas..don't think i can eat one more tomato :D
Good work. You know you did well when you get sick of tomatoes...
A fellow Central Texan!
@@FebbieG Indeed! Happy Gardening!
Love the air space! Quite a seating novelty!
David be planting seeds for sure! I love that intro! David be planting seeds al over! :P Please use it again for another video!
David and family Happy New Year
Sadly, my melon pits were an epic fail this year. A rabid possum ate everything in them, including dirt. I had to buy soil to fill the holes, and I also mixed in blood meal. I got squash vines, but very few squash. My neighbor didn't have much luck with squash this year either, so maybe it was some sort of blight. I'm going to try growing them in raised beds next year.
I use plain old human urine here were i live to deter rabbits, moose, and deer that eat my crops, i have used human hair from hair brushes i found these methods always helped, you need to do it about 1 time every 10 days or after a big rain for best defense. I noticed over the years when i did not do it is when i got the damage by the animal pest.
Yikes. Too bad you couldn't bury the possum in a new one.
I'm gonna take a payday loan to fight the Commies.
I'm gonna dodge my taxes, baby! The man won't rob me 🎼🎸
Oh yeah!🎶🎸🌋🎤🏝️🤬💃🐑🌴🐐🎶sounds like the words of a whole new song!
Morning , I love pumpkin 😁
“white flavor” “yellow flavor” 😂
'Put in some ashes, put in your enemies..' LOL love your humor and your insight!
My turn for tropical storm fun. Fred about to spit straight into my eye.
Oh, and my seminoles did much better this year than last. 12x the yield so far, and still fining some in the weeds out there. This year I did pits/mounds. The pumpkins liked them better than the cantaloupes and watermelons.
That is fantastic. Good luck through the storm.
You keep me laughing! Congrats on the colossal pumpkin harvest! 🎃
Thank you.
Thanks again for the inspiring video. I appreciate your humor. 😏
You should have way more views with the music and rollin pumpkins!!! Love it!
That was a great harvest of pumpkins and watermelons 🍉 👍
I like this video and music so much , I watched it several times. Did my pumpkin this way. Thank you from Florida Panhandle. :)
Thank you.
I will absolutely be doing this next spring. I would love to see a video of every vegetable you consider pit worthy! Something I want to try next year is mini corn cobs like are in stir fry mixes. Basically it's regular corn but you harvest the cob as soon as it starts to tassle at all. I don't think I have enough time but you might just an idea to add a bit more biomass before the end of the year, though corn is pretty nitrogen hungry so idk.
I have grown sunflowers, corn, mulberries, melons and pumpkins in melon pits so far. The pumpkins and melons did the best, so I named it after them.
@@davidthegood nice I'm particularly interested in the mulberries and may have to add a few of those next year. Do you think mulberries would do well with a boomerang swale and compost pit just uphill of them? I know once they get going mulberries can be pretty bulletproof but I want to get some going from seed so I assume they'll need a little extra care.
Love your "air chair".😜
Hahaha the glass shattering effect. Love your videos man 😂
Very very cool. Love these videos. I've learned so much. I got not great clay. Definitely gonna try this
Hello David WOW that's a lot of pumpkins and I like the different veritas of pumpkins you're going to have plenty of pumpkin seeds for next year 👍
Amazing! I should have done your method. My pink pumpkins only made one per vine.
One is better than none, but that is a poor harvest. Better luck this next year.
I've never heard of melon pits before. Interesting.
You Killed it man !! , my Australian squash didn’t survive the dry 100+ degree desert weather, I thought it was gonna be a hit since Australia is hot as heck ! Go figure
Thank you so much for all the videos you've made about growing pumpkins and squash. I've always dreamed of growing awesome pumpkins and I've never grown them on my own but I'm definitely going to actually try it. With the help of your videos and advice. I'll let you know how it goes. I do have a question though, I'm in zone 6b. When would be the best time to get my pumpkin seeds in the ground?
I'm a new subscriber to your channel and so thankful I found it. I also got a copy of your book Compost Everything. What I've read so far has been great..thank you again for all your knowledge and I love all of your videos because you actually show what your doing or showing what you mean. If that makes sense.
David, what mic 🎤 are you using? The sound quality is superb 🥰🤩😎
We use an MKE600 Sennheiser shotgun mic.
@@davidthegood Thank you 🎤
So cool, great harvesting 👍🌱☘🌳🍀🌲absolutely 💯 incredible 👏 🙌
"throw in your enemies" hahahahahahahahahahhahahahhaha!
Seminole pumpkins do great here in N Arkansas, and my soil is rocks with a little dirt in between. Got about 100 pounds from 4 plants.
WOW WOW WOW!!!!! AMAZING! YOU DA MAN!
I have save several hundred pumpkin/squash seed. We have 15 acres that is not being used planting them all for animal (chicken/hog)feed your information really helped!❤️
That yellow watermelon look tasty
the Walmart special was probably a Jarrahdale or Queensland Blue type. I often pick up the Jarrahdales here in the US sold as fall decor.
Very awesome, i live in south Louisiana, same climate. I grew a mixta Guatemalan blue squash and a choctaw sweet potato squash, moschata. I did mine in rasied beds. Not again. I did alright. I got 6 blue squash out of 10 plants and the vine borers killed my vines, the Choctaw squash did better and I got 8 squash out of 10 vines and borers did a number I believe although they are more resistant. Next year i will be better prepared. I bought seminole pumpkin seeds and i might do them next year. I plan on doing the three sisters way.
Nice!
I painted the stem of a pumpkin with glitter and glue, I was decorating it, but a side effect, it preserved it nearly 8 months, before someone moved it in the sun, then it started to rot.
I love Seminole pumpkin. I call him Seymour.
I just cut a vine borer out of one of my pumpkin vines 😏 I have never grown anything before. I thought I got all those eggs and treated wit seven dust and one still got in
Hmm, crazy ideas that work.. I LOVE it. I have desert sand…. Got a spot in mind for this outside my garden 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Do it!
@@davidthegood 😁👍👍🎃
Fresh butternut is amazing. Have not tasted 4-month old from my garden. Will get to soon but I cannot imagine it being better than the 1-1,5 month butternut. I will come again to confirm after I eat the 4 month old.
I just found your channel and this makes me very happy. I'm from the Tampa Bay area. I have tried to grow pumpkins and had no luck with it. My channel started years ago as a pumpkin and gourd channel but always ended with telling my viewers how the plants had failed. The biggest problems were the powdery mildew, leaf footed bugs and worst of the worst the melon worm moths. So seven years of failure and I had quit but now I want to try again because I love pumpkins even though FL hates them. Even the seminole pumpkins all died. But I'm hoping to plant now and that with the cooler season coming maybe there will be fewer bugs and diseases. I don't know. I also want to try you pit method. I've ordered a bunch of lovely seeds from a grower on etsy. I just hope it won't 'be another disaster. They always start great but never get past the flower stage without something destroying them. If you're in south Florida it's even hotter so is there anything else you could tell me?
In South Florida I would try planting them in October and growing through the cooler, drier winter months.
I have trouble with leaf footed bugs too.
I've been toying with the idea of attracting the kind of wasps that hunt for bugs to feed to their young. Like maybe the kind that inject their eggs into the bugs...
I don't know if it will work, but if you try it, let us all know what happens!!
@@davidthegood Thanks for replying. My seeds should arrive tomorrow. I can't wait. Actually I'm in Central FL. I thought you were in south FL. So maybe Sept would be better for me. Hope I can wait two more weeks. So excited about this.
@@gardengatesopen Oh man, I hate those things. Anything from the stink bug family is bad but those are the worst. I will be posting what I do to my channel. I should get my seeds tomorrow. I'm hoping that planting now might be the trick. Let me know if you do the bug experiment too.
@@ScaryFear I will let you know if I do.
Good Luck to you!!
If you know anyone one with old straw or hay and it's starting to rot and get nasty, you can just pile it up in a big old hill, add just enough dirt where you're actually putting the pumpkin plants to cover the roots, water it good and watch it go. The hay composes down all summer releasing fertilizer on a steady basis. A four or five foot hill of hay will will melt down to a foot or two of rich soil. If you can't dig holes and burn things outside, this might be a good option for those with horrible soil. The next year, pile a bunch more hay on and replant. In 2019, I got almost 300 pounds of pumpkins and squash from my fifty by thirty foot garden. I also had tomatoes, summer squash, and beans growing in this space. It was just super productive. I love all the beautiful pumpkins you grew. Pumpkins are an amazing plants with beautiful leaves, lovely good smelling flowers and beautiful fruit. This year I grew that French worty variety and they trellised along my fences and up my arch. They were the star of the garden all summer.
Haha hilarious intro. Keep up the great work man. 10/10 got a sub from me!
Welcome, Johan!
Sounds like grey Kent pumpkin we have in Australia 😊
10:17 OH MY GOD, the SEMINOLE VARIANT!!!
I really like the camera work with this video, especially the shots with nice backround blur. Do you mind me asking what camera/lens you're shooting with?
And my 4 pumpkins gave/ giving me a great lesson in pumpkin 101! Practice more... I got nothing.
12:57 is messing with my brain 🧠 😆
Great but how you get any with vine borers or do you have that problem
How do you water out there? I live in a zone where summer goes dry for at least 2 months! How do you keep a field of pumpkins irrigated?
Great info! I'm sure to do better than one lousy pumpkin in 350 lbs. of weird dirt.
I grew zucchini and spaghetti squash one year. The seeds I saved and planted after were a vining spaghetti squash plant with zucchini squash fruit. They produced well for a couple generations, then they died out one year. 😢
I am pit ready ✅ 👍
If it weren’t for THIS ONE WEIRD TRCK!! I never would have watched 😜
The amount of squash bugs my pumpkin brought to my backyard was devastating. Every time it tried to put on a pumpkin. It didn't take because of the squash beetles so sad. I'll try it on a larger property
I like to grow triple treat pumpkins. I eat the seeds. I make a Jack-o-lantern. Maybe a pie. Don’t much like pumpkin to eat. Wish I did. They are fun.
Where I garden here in Fl they dug a drainage pond and built out our yards with some sort if clay garbage. I have put compost on yearly nothing seems to help. Have to grow everything in pots
Sounds like you got stripped down to subsoil. That is tough. Compost doesn't help Florida soil for long. You might try making biochar and soaking it in nutrients.
I'm in the south, zone 8a. is it too late to plant some pumpkins or the seminole variety?
there's a patch of my backyard where we bury our dead pets and i always thought it would be amazing to grow big fruit vegetables and i'm gonna try it this year
You ever used the Refractometer? That way you will know for sure what looks good really is good with minerals.
No - I looked into them once, but the ones I saw were too expensive. You can get a rough idea by tasting produce, though. Our 12-bed experiment at the end of last year taught us a lot.
@@davidthegood They are not that expensive. Awww.amazon.com/Lab-Refractometers/b?node=393272011mazon has them. From as low as $17.
Do you think I still have time to get a Seminole crop in here in central FL? My spring round flopped and I just bought seeds from your lovely daughter. I wonder if there’s enough time or if I should hang onto them until spring.
You might just make it if you plant before Sept 1st.
@@davidthegood thanks!
My apologies if you mentioned this in the video and I missed it, but how many pumpkin plants did you plant for the 350lb yield?
How much potash or campfire ash do you need per vegetable plant, and how do you work that out?
your Etsy store is sold out of the Seminole pumpkin seeds,will you be having more of them come available soon?
S. Anna butternut is an amazing squash and seems to hold up to bugs and disease of the south.
Why are your videos so good?????~~~!!! Be well
Have any of your pumpkins from before the tropical move? Or maybe you acquired them over there? Either way those were incredible pumpkins
So I'm a first year gardener, and all our squash were ravaged by local wild boar. After your other pumpkin video I'm going to grow horizontally next year rather than vertically, but what about watering? If it vines everywhere do you just walk carefully in amongst them to water?
Usually I space them widely and don't have to water except when we plant. If your rainfall is low, though, it's pretty easy to carefully walk through and put out a sprinkler.
Dang that makes me so mad. I got one small butternut out of my compost bin. But there's still a chance with the Seminoles. Several have gone kaput but I found a couple out back that are flowering. Fingers crossed.
David are you familiar with Joseph Lofthouse's "Landrace Gardening"?