Thanks for watching! Now we gotta make some pie! Here are more links: Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting (New Edition): amzn.to/37Kj5Qf How to Grow a Pumpkin Patch Without Fixing All Your Lousy Soil (video): th-cam.com/video/wQrOeCrAs0k/w-d-xo.html Seminole Pumpkin Seeds (Crazy Mixed Varieties): www.etsy.com/listing/1054263161/crazy-seminole-pumpkin-seeds-mixed
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.
@@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 🤣
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!
''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 ..
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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
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.
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!❤️
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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. 😢
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.
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.
What is the number of days for the Seminole Pumpkin to fruit and mature? I'm in Pennsylvania and our growing season where I am is from the middle of May to the Middle of October (traditional frost date).
You are in florida? I'm in central and can not get anything to grow..boreres n bugs have eaten everything..the dirt seems to be dead...there is also way weird bacteria that just appears kills grass too..any any ideas would be appreciated
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?
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.
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.
Hey David. Do you by a good chance know the name (race, breed, model) of that little cute cream coloured pumkin that appeared as nr 2 on the turning stool? Is it called Musquee De Provence? Or do you call them something else? Thanks for your content BTW. We do thing kinda alike. 🎃💪🏻👍🏼💙🙏😃
@@davidthegood 9 hours later, I am late showing up & those seeds are sold out! Great for your girl! Hope she keeps sharing seeds! Thank you for sharing squash pits…I have enjoyed burying things, lol? I mentioned my poor old dog (23yo) in another comment. That was sad but he has been honored with squash & they have been producing beautifully. His name was Rudder, so, they are our Ruddernut Squash! Yellow, Zucchini, & butternut growing nicely there. But I just buried a mess of blue crabs that were sadly going bad! Didn’t know what to do with them so tossed in some gourds & pumpkins! They are fastest growing things I think I ever planted! Craby Gourds? Can’t wait to see how they do! Hoping they have time before frost and cold hits here. Really hoping for some pumpkin! I got one last year, all of 6inches. Cutest pumpkin ever. ♥️ Thank you again for sharing your knowledge & for planting seeds!
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?
Hello David, Will Daisy eventually put Seminole pumpkin seeds from your harvest? As I watch your videos I’m typing questions, so I left the question even though you answered it. ☺️Or maybe you answered be because of your time travel capabilities and knew I would ask. ☺️ Ohh I Loved your cosmo field!! 🥰I have bought seed planted it out, if even sowed it in cells and no luck, I guess cause I really love them, but someday I’ll get some going and will enjoy them swaying in the breeze. Thank you for your videos, which help even us older people who grew ornamentals all my life and just now barely working on learning about edibles. How I wish I done both simultaneously. David you and your efforts are so appreciated.😉💗👍🏼
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.
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
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
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Thanks for watching! Now we gotta make some pie!
Here are more links:
Compost Everything: The Good Guide to Extreme Composting (New Edition): amzn.to/37Kj5Qf
How to Grow a Pumpkin Patch Without Fixing All Your Lousy Soil (video): th-cam.com/video/wQrOeCrAs0k/w-d-xo.html
Seminole Pumpkin Seeds (Crazy Mixed Varieties): www.etsy.com/listing/1054263161/crazy-seminole-pumpkin-seeds-mixed
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'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 ..
I came for the weird trick and I stayed for the bassline.
Funny, I came because I heard there was an awesome baseline and I stayed to learn how to grow hundreds of pounds of pumpkins.
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.
Hello to all of your selves! 😋 that one belly pumpkin is the best pumpkin! 350 lbs! Man that’s alotta pumpkin!
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?
Fun fact: red fleshed watermelons actually have a purple flavor. The more you know.
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.
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.
I love how you have turned the abandoned kid toy into your most treasured garden tool.
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 LOVE how the seed packets for the Everglades tomato and Seminole pumpkins are decorated! So very awesome!
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!
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 😸
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
That pumpkin song is great, and I laughed when you threw the watermelon rind made of glass. :P
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
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.
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.
It’s my first season gardening and it is so therapeutic. I have 3 pumpkin patches. So excited to see everything develop!
Your pumpkin display at the beginning of your video was precious -- especially the blue one... Congrats on your newest pumpkin!
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.
“Put your enimies in the ground”. I love that 🤣🤣🤣🎃
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?
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 like this video and music so much , I watched it several times. Did my pumpkin this way. Thank you from Florida Panhandle. :)
Thank you.
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. :)
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.
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.
Some really good tips in this vid. Thanks Mr Good. 🙏👌
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, what mic 🎤 are you using? The sound quality is superb 🥰🤩😎
We use an MKE600 Sennheiser shotgun mic.
@@davidthegood Thank you 🎤
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.
Love the air space! Quite a seating novelty!
Morning , I love pumpkin 😁
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!
I've never heard of melon pits before. Interesting.
Love your "air chair".😜
You should have way more views with the music and rollin pumpkins!!! Love it!
Very very cool. Love these videos. I've learned so much. I got not great clay. Definitely gonna try this
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.
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
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.
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!❤️
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?
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.
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.
David and family Happy New Year
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.
Oh Man, that was awesome. The best video taking ever. Love the pumpkin show. Now for the rest of this video.
Thanks again for the inspiring video. I appreciate your humor. 😏
Great but how you get any with vine borers or do you have that problem
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!
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.
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.
That was a great harvest of pumpkins and watermelons 🍉 👍
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 👍
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.
'Put in some ashes, put in your enemies..' LOL love your humor and your insight!
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 😁👍👍🎃
Hahaha the glass shattering effect. Love your videos man 😂
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.
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
How much potash or campfire ash do you need per vegetable plant, and how do you work that out?
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. 😢
Did you get pickle worms in any of your pumpkins? If you did, how did you solve the problem? Thank you. Central Florida 9b.
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.
Sounds like grey Kent pumpkin we have in Australia 😊
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.
What is the number of days for the Seminole Pumpkin to fruit and mature? I'm in Pennsylvania and our growing season where I am is from the middle of May to the Middle of October (traditional frost date).
So cool, great harvesting 👍🌱☘🌳🍀🌲absolutely 💯 incredible 👏 🙌
You are in florida? I'm in central and can not get anything to grow..boreres n bugs have eaten everything..the dirt seems to be dead...there is also way weird bacteria that just appears kills grass too..any any ideas would be appreciated
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!
How much acreage is reasonable to grow how many pounds of pumpkins typically?
10:17 OH MY GOD, the SEMINOLE VARIANT!!!
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!!
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.
“white flavor” “yellow flavor” 😂
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.
Hey David. Do you by a good chance know the name (race, breed, model) of that little cute cream coloured pumkin that appeared as nr 2 on the turning stool? Is it called Musquee De Provence? Or do you call them something else? Thanks for your content BTW. We do thing kinda alike. 🎃💪🏻👍🏼💙🙏😃
How awesome! Weedy commenting on David's page. My two favourites 🙏
I'm in the south, zone 8a. is it too late to plant some pumpkins or the seminole variety?
Might be at my end, brother, but I don't see the seed link. If you see this would you please be so kind as to attach it here?
You bet:
Seminole Pumpkin Seeds (Crazy Mixed Varieties): www.etsy.com/listing/1054263161/crazy-seminole-pumpkin-seeds-mixed
@@davidthegood Thank you again, David! ❤😊
@@davidthegood 9 hours later, I am late showing up & those seeds are sold out! Great for your girl! Hope she keeps sharing seeds! Thank you for sharing squash pits…I have enjoyed burying things, lol? I mentioned my poor old dog (23yo) in another comment. That was sad but he has been honored with squash & they have been producing beautifully. His name was Rudder, so, they are our Ruddernut Squash! Yellow, Zucchini, & butternut growing nicely there. But I just buried a mess of blue crabs that were sadly going bad! Didn’t know what to do with them so tossed in some gourds & pumpkins! They are fastest growing things I think I ever planted! Craby Gourds? Can’t wait to see how they do! Hoping they have time before frost and cold hits here. Really hoping for some pumpkin! I got one last year, all of 6inches. Cutest pumpkin ever. ♥️ Thank you again for sharing your knowledge & for planting seeds!
You keep me laughing! Congrats on the colossal pumpkin harvest! 🎃
Thank you.
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?
S. Anna butternut is an amazing squash and seems to hold up to bugs and disease of the south.
Hello David, Will Daisy eventually put Seminole pumpkin seeds from your harvest? As I watch your videos I’m typing questions, so I left the question even though you answered it. ☺️Or maybe you answered be because of your time travel capabilities and knew I would ask. ☺️
Ohh I Loved your cosmo field!! 🥰I have bought seed planted it out, if even sowed it in cells and no luck, I guess cause I really love them, but someday I’ll get some going and will enjoy them swaying in the breeze. Thank you for your videos, which help even us older people who grew ornamentals all my life and just now barely working on learning about edibles.
How I wish I done both simultaneously. David you and your efforts are so appreciated.😉💗👍🏼
They were in her store this morning.
I noticed, I placed my order. Thank you all!! 💗😉
I love Seminole pumpkin. I call him Seymour.
Did you use any of your swamp water on them?
My swamp water barrels were filled with biochar, so I don't think I used much this time. I did give them some worm tea, I think.
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.
your Etsy store is sold out of the Seminole pumpkin seeds,will you be having more of them come available soon?
WOW WOW WOW!!!!! AMAZING! YOU DA MAN!
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
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
That yellow watermelon look tasty
Have any of your pumpkins from before the tropical move? Or maybe you acquired them over there? Either way those were incredible pumpkins
Squash always does seem to grow from the compost pile anyways ...
It's amazing.
Is it to late to plant Seminole pumpkin? I'm in ncentral FL
I'm planting some seeds now. I think we have just enough time and if it goes well they'll be done by Dec.
12:57 is messing with my brain 🧠 😆
And my 4 pumpkins gave/ giving me a great lesson in pumpkin 101! Practice more... I got nothing.