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Thunderbay,Ontario

It has not been raining alot here so I have been watering the shit out the patch is that too much?

7/29/2011 7:12:31 PM

Ashby, MA

I thought the idea was to have manure in your patch... not get rid of it.

Kidding aside, what I've been told is that if you take a handful of soil and squeeze it and it forms a ball then you're good. However, if it falls apart then you need to water.

7/29/2011 8:12:06 PM

Massachusetts

gpierce. tooo funnny!!! lol!

7/29/2011 8:39:49 PM

Thunderbay,Ontario

lol so...How much do you water your patch gpierce? I have a nice pumpkin on..and I want to max it out,I was thinking 200g a day!

7/29/2011 11:41:12 PM

Anchorage Alaska

983, .. for 1 inch of rainfall a week, a 500 sq ft patch would need roughly 315 gallons per week or about 45 gallons a day, depending on your soil conditions, you could use more ( real sandy ) or less (clay ) I'm kinda thinking 200 a day is on the excessive side, but just speculating

7/30/2011 12:45:32 AM

Muddy Waters

Its way 2 much I watered heavy last year & lost my best plant to a foaming stump & a split Kin,try 1/2 every other day & ck soil for moisture if it gets dry due to heat you can increase to 3/4,I had to in greenhouse.

7/30/2011 7:30:54 AM

Muddy Waters

or 1/4 inch every day if you prefer

7/30/2011 7:31:55 AM

Jamul

I water heavy with drippers, skip a day, water light with a hose end sprayer, than back to heavy and continue this way with occasional adjustment for a heat wave or a cool period. Might not be optimum, but doing it this way takes away my own newbie concerns about over or under watering, until I learn a better or best practices.

7/31/2011 10:40:10 PM

Ashby, MA

Hi 983, I water every day with sprinklers that are mounted on top of oak stakes which are placed in the middle of each plant. I water for about an hour at a time. I skip watering if the soil is already good and damp due to rain or my previous watering. I take each day as it comes and make adjustments to what's going on in the patch that day. This is only my 2nd year but I'm really finding out that growing big pumpkins require day to day care.

8/3/2011 11:45:16 AM