Growing Pumpkins

I have tried growing pumpkins in pots and my yield was low. Its a lot of work to grow them like one person suggested. I now barter with others in my area for plants I can't grow well.

Don't know about that but let me ask you...I am in kind of the same perdiciment. I have the yardage, but don't have good dirt..I'm in the desert. But I want some garden stuff...so I was thinking about those hanging upside down plants..mainly strawberries and tomatoes are all I have seen...but you hang them on a eaves and then it grows downward and produces tomatos and strawberries as normal. Have you tired those? I was thinking of doing them, but hate to waste money! Other than that I do mint in a pot and that is about it.

Pumpkin vines require a LOT of space, a fair amount of soil and a LOT of water. Like most of the melons and squashes, they could be trained up a very stout fence with nets to support the fruit but this isn't really as practical as it is for zucchini, smaller melons and cucumbers. Don't forget that pumpkins, like zucchini, can be eaten when green and tender. They are excellent stuffed with a mixture of ground meat and rice. You may have to manage your crop so that you get just two or three ripe fruit and it would be a shame to waste those babies that you have to take off early!

If you find a way to do that let me know, as I can't plant those kind of things in our veggie garden anymore, we have groundhogs. Or mutants as I like to refer to them as cause they eat my sunflowers, etc as well.