Hi gang.
I’m growing pumpkins this summer and they’re getting shockingly large. Here’s my question: if I fertilize them a LOT, to grow them as large as possible, will that have any kind of bad effect on them? I.E., would they become huge but tasteless? would it divert all their energy away from seed production into getting big?
This is the first year I’ve had such good luck so I don’t know what to expect.
TIA!
Do you still have the seed package? There are many different varieties, some are grown to be carved for jack-o-lanterns, some are grown to see how big they can get, and some are grown to eat. Pumpkins that you would grow to make pie out of are smaller and more dense.
You are not going to get good pies out of pumpkins that are meant for carving. You can toast the seeds if you like them and eat those, but the flesh won’t be of much use.
I have grown some of the giant variety and they got quite big but then we carved a couple and put the rest on the compost pile.
Make 'em huge and enter the state fair!