Just wondering the best time of year to plant pumpkin seeds. I'm in
central queensland...rockhampton. I intend to grow butternutt

Thanks for your advise.

Warren,
I reckon you could probably put them in now, but someone with more local
knowledge might refine that. We have to wait until the last frost (last
week of Sep) before planting them out, but I put seeds in to pots in my hot
house last weekend.

Basically they don't like cold - but can also suffer badly from hot moist
conditions when mildew becomes a real issue. They also don't like sudden
increases in water once the pumpkins are near fully formed (they split), but
they enjoy being hot and dry.

Geoff
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Just wondering the best time of year to plant pumpkin seeds. I'm in
central queensland...rockhampton. I intend to grow butternutt

Thanks for your advise.

Warren wrote:
Just wondering the best time of year to plant pumpkin seeds. I'm in
central queensland...rockhampton. I intend to grow butternutt

Thanks for your advise.

Take a look at http://www.global-garden.com.au/ggplantguide.htm

g'day warren,

if you are going to strike the seeeds inside in the warmth then
anytime now, or for outside after the chance of frost has gone which
could extend into mid september? also the soil need to be warm so
would need to be heavily mulched.



On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:39:32 -0700, Warren
wrote:

Just wondering the best time of year to plant pumpkin seeds. I'm in
central queensland...rockhampton. I intend to grow butternutt

Thanks for your advise.
With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev

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