Re: planting date

A good rule of thumb...60 days from germination to first pollination and 60 days to when you can pick the fruit.
However, the fruit will still grow till frost...or another 30 days or so.
Good luck.
David Bhaskaran
Rochester, MN


-----Original Message-----
From: Diana Sigel <duchessofgladstone@yahoo.com>
To: pumpkin listserv <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 9:00 am
Subject: planting date



I need some help with planting planning.  When should I plant my seeds?  I know 
about weather considerations, but I don't know days to harvest on an AG.  I 
think it's about 112, but I don't know if that's from emergence, from planting, 
or from pollinating.  

This is what I think I'm s'posed to do.  I look at the date of the local 
weigh-off, then count backwards 112 days?  But to what?  To planting, to 
emergence, or to pollinating?  Thanks for any help.  Our local county fair is in 
July now, so I don't think I'll be planning on showing a punkin there.  That 
puts the 112-day date back to late March.

We're going to create the mini-greenhouse today.  Not for the pumpkins just yet, 
but for some other spring-like stuff, lettuce, flowers, tomatoes, etc.  And to 
provide a warm spot for the worms so I don't have to keep providing hot water 
bottles for them each night.  I took Leigh's off-list advice about keeping seeds 
warm by putting jugs of hot water in a cooler, and  modified it to my worm bins, 
which are in an unheated building.  I've been toting jugs of hot water out and 
putting them in the corner of the worm bin each night to keep the wigglers 
wiggling.  So far, so good.  We've had 15 degrees and the worms are still doing 
OK.  I put a minimum-maximum thermometer in the bin and it's only dropped to 33 
degrees, and it's always warmer down in the part where the wigglers live.  We're 
supposed to have another good break in the weather today, up to the 60's.  It's 
gonna have to do some doin' to get there, as it's only 18 right now.

This is the greenhouse we were going to put up last fall, and have good stuff 
all winter.  Oh, well, maybe it will work that way for next winter.  We'll be 
among those who aren't affected by the bad times ahead.  Maybe we can barter 
pumpkins for the necessities of life.  Maybe we can rent them out to people 
whose mortgages become unmanageable...if I can figure out the right time to 
plant my seeds.

...and there he kept her very well.

 cheers,
duchess of gladstone

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