A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Food Garden Forum Vegetable Gardening I need to know how to grow ornamental pumpkins

Hi,

i few days ago my gret grandma sent me some ornamental pumkin seeds which she got out of a pumpkin so to see if it would grow i planted it in a small pot and its growing! I need to know how to grow this if i need to take it out of the pot and put it in my yard and build a trellis for it to climb up on or what? so if anyone cna help i would appreciate it...

it can be grown in a pot, depending on the size of the pot. i use 3-5 gallon buckets for pots for my vining plants like that. if you put a trellis (instead of letting it run on the ground, you need to plan for some support for the fruit when the pumpkins start to make. a sling of old panty hose works well.

Hi thank you, but what do you mean making a slig what does that do I havent been gardening by myself for very long im 15 and we moved to a place of our own instead of renting and my parents are letting me run wild because i used to just help my grandparents with theirs im pretty good but i have a lot to learn

ok toposh. we have several younger members here. if you see badplanter or kennyso around, they were your age when they joined.

by a sling, i mean something to support the fruit of the vine. large fruits, like melons, will cause the vine to fall if they get very big. so, if you grow them on a vertical trellis, you have to support them once they set fruit.

myself, i use a horizontal trellis of sorts, just an old window screen propped off the ground for the fruit to sit on instead of on the dirt.


and by fruit, i mean anything a plant produces. pumpkins, squash, watermelons, etc. not all "fruit of the vine" is actually fruit.

Thank you for your all your help!

Have a happy new year

you too, and let us know how the pumpkins are going.

by the way, where in fl are you? i'm from pensacola.

punta gorda really close to portcharlotee like just down the road

oh jiffy i figured out they arent pumkins their ornamental squash lol ive been going round thinking it was pumpkin but when i talked to my grandma she informed they were squash, lol i feel like a idiot...

don't feel like an idiot. they are related plants! along with cucumbers and melons too!