How to Grow Pumpkins for Fun and Profit

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Medium to medium-large pumpkins sell best for jack-o-lantern use. 
Medium to medium-large pumpkins sell best for jack-o-lantern use. 
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Rich, moist soil with a high humus content is well-suited to growing pumpkins. 
Rich, moist soil with a high humus content is well-suited to growing pumpkins. 
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Pumpkin plants may be started indoors in peat pots or other plantable containers. This prevents root disturbance when transplanting your pumpkin seedlings outdoors. 
Pumpkin plants may be started indoors in peat pots or other plantable containers. This prevents root disturbance when transplanting your pumpkin seedlings outdoors. 

Pumpkins are for laughter — for Jack-O-Lanterns and Halloween — during the cool, overcast days of autumn. 

Pumpkins are for pies . . . all winter long.

And pumpkins are for extra cash: their sales bring in dollars when most other money crops are gone. A fellow homesteader put it this way: “Pumpkins are our ace-in-the-hole for raising Christmas dollars. Ole Jack brings in extra funds just in time to take advantage of the countless pre-holiday sales.” T he big, beautiful, bright orange fruit is easy to grow, too. It needs about 120 days to reach maturity so, in most areas, plantings around May 20th will bring in crops during late September . . . before damaging frosts and just in time for Halloween.

Planting Pumpkins

  • Published on Sep 1, 1972
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