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Albert County, New Brunswick,CANADA

After driving the riding mower over the patch,I pulled up the vines and scooped up the pumpkin remains and placed them over the stump area ,hoping it will compost and provide for next years plant. Sounds reasonable to me but will it compost? I live in Canada/snow in winter. Shouldn't all the nutrients that made the pumpkin grow,still be in the plant and provide what is needed for the next season as compost? duh...where else would it go?

9/17/2009 2:26:41 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

you need to get that plant debris out of the patch asap. you will encourage disease to overwinter in your patch if you dont

9/17/2009 3:56:29 PM

Anamosa, IA [email protected]

Put it in a compost pile and use it to fertilize some other crop, like tomatoes or sweet corn. It might take a year to get it broken down with a cold winter; it gets cold here too. Use the remains from other plants to feed the pumpkins.

9/17/2009 6:03:29 PM

Wilmington.Ma.

I cut my pumpkins up in 10 to20 lbs put them all in the patch. In the spring its all gone. Been doing this for a
lot of years and so far no prblem.Last year I had over 1500lbs out there small patch.

9/17/2009 7:41:10 PM

Albert County, New Brunswick,CANADA

no disease except for the recent affliction of being chopped like soo-she from a japanese built lawnmower.I don't think it will recover from that.

9/18/2009 6:52:10 AM