Beginner Gardening: Help with pumpkins, 1 by whitneyeh

whitneyeh wrote:
I need assistance, I am a very novice gardener (first veggie garden this year), but we have a volunteer in our yard (not the same garden) We let it grow, just seeing what it would do. Well, it has flourished, and we now have two good sized pumpkins. I have no idea what to do with the plant, when to harvest (Can they keep growing until fall?). Do we ever cut the leaves that look like they are dying/have died?

The top left photo is the "healthy" newer growth. The bottom right is almost right where the original plant started growing. The photo on the bottom left is to show the size of the pumpkins.



Thank you for any help,
Whitney

This message was edited Jul 4, 2013 2:25 PM