Growing pumpkin outdoors. Tips for summer residents

Growing pumpkin in the open field, just like in a greenhouse or a greenhouse, is available even to a novice vegetable grower, so many willingly cultivate it in their private plots, while getting decent yields.

Pumpkin has not only excellent taste, but also medicinal properties. A huge number of dishes are prepared from it, and proper harvesting allows the fruits to be stored well enough.

Growing pumpkin in the open field, subject to the technology, is quite simple, because pumpkin is an unpretentious and responsive plant to proper care. In addition to traditional cultivation in a garden bed or in a greenhouse, summer residents grow this crop on trees, gazebos, fences, while the pumpkin also plays a decorative role.

The simplest option involves preparing for planting a hole filled with loose and fertile soil. During sowing, it is advisable to use seeds warmed up for 2-3 hours, and then germinated in a damp cloth or in sawdust for about 3 days. Seedlings are grown under plastic film in greenhouses or in a room by the window.

It is better to plant sprouted pumpkin seeds after warming up the earth to 15 degrees at a depth of 10 cm. Caring for a pumpkin is simple and consists in watering, feeding, loosening the soil and removing weeds. To get a good harvest, you can form lashes by pinching. Rare but abundant watering, timely feeding (interval 12-15 days) are favorite conditions for the culture. Growth will be more successful if pieces of plywood or leaky roofing material are placed under the fruits.