How to plant a pumpkin

Modern amateur gardeners do not stop at any difficulties, so very often you can find quite successful cultivation of certain crops in the most seemingly unfavorable conditions for them.

Pumpkin It is a fairly heat-loving plant, so it must be planted in well-warmed soil and in an area where there will be enough warm days for the pumpkin to ripen. But today many gardeners have their own secrets in the question "How to plant a pumpkin in their latitudes, so that it does not freeze and has time to ripen.”

In spring, pumpkin seeds can be plant in peat pots and since pumpkin tolerates transplants very easily, you can grow pumpkin almost until the end of May in pots on a sunny windowsill. And yet, it should be taken into account that a pumpkin can only be replanted until its second true leaves have blossomed, and if this has already happened, then young shoots must be planted very carefullyso as not to catch the root system.

How to plant a pumpkin right away to its permanent place of growth. First you need to choose a sunny place for this plant. The most optimal soil temperature for planting seeds in open ground is +23-24 degrees, and in cold soil the seeds can simply rot. Under favorable conditions, seeds germinate on the third day. Pumpkins love space, so when planting seeds, we must not forget about space within a radius of about 1.5-2 meters for future pumpkin weaving. But you can immediately plant 2-3 seeds in one hole.

Remember that pumpkin is very loves fertilizers, so it can be planted directly in humus, and during growth the plant must be fed regularly.