Raising Giant Pumpkins
June gardening: Lots of tender loving care
“I’d like to coin a new term: Cucurbitacean. A person who regards pumpkins and squashes with deep, often rapturous love.” Amy Goldman (Rebecca Rupp, 2011)Like those other gifts of the New World, tomato and pepper, pumpkins are tropical denizens. So the giant or mammoth pumpkin, Cucurbita maxima, demands it warm if not downright hot – 20ºC plus air and soil temperatures – and 90 to 120 frost-free days to achieve its gigantic glory. Its bed as befits a behemoth may have been prepared eight or ten weeks ago, a large hole filled with compost. Now still more compost is added prior to planting, mixed with generous amounts of granulated bone and blood fertilizer.
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