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mapleridge, B.C.

whats the best food from start to finish for healthy huge pumpkins?

6/15/2007 2:07:23 AM

Anamosa, IA BPIowegian@aol.com

A good dose of well composted manure has worked the best for me. If you have one growing now and did not have a fertility plan, then I would be using a high P soluable fertilizer like Miracle Grow Bloom booster now. After fruit set I would switch to a high K like Miracle Grow or Schultz tomato food. Then plan on getting some manure on the patch this fall after harvest.

6/15/2007 10:56:12 AM

southwest MO

Fish and sea weed get a real work out in the giant pumpkin world...Use at labeled rates. Deep, fertile, loose, soil is the best place to start...

6/15/2007 4:28:21 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Here is BC you can get a great product from a company called Kelpman. They have a great kelp concentrate and also a very nice fish emulsion that you should definitley use.

Check it out at http://www.kelpman.com (gardenworks carries it)

6/16/2007 8:53:15 PM

Minnesota

I'm a begginer also, it seems to me everybody uses fish emulsion or fish emulsion/seaweed.

6/17/2007 12:10:30 AM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

An awful lot depends on the state of your existing soil but....

Nitrogen early to run out at fruit set (later June/early July) <Fish - Cal Nitrate - Blood - Urea - whatever>
Phosphorus to be available right before fruit set.
Even mix of NPK during regular growth but trending toward higher Potash in the back end.

Calcium all of the time & lot's of it.

Find the link here for C&J Fertilizer. You can find the Agro-K program there. It is time tested & proven to deliver the goods. I'm not telling you to buy the program but you can get a feel for the nutritional needs by looking at it.

6/17/2007 11:20:04 AM