Growing Pumpkin On Roof

A house a person once bought had an overgrown pumpkin patch with a pumpkin growing on the roof.

Growing pumpkin on roof.

Wherever a pumpkin starts growing any plants underneath will. Keep them apart from other plants so that they have lots of room to grow. The hill will help in the improvement of drainage of soil and will let the heat to heat the soil quickly which will also speed up the process of germination of seeds. It s warmer up there and pumpkins are heat loving plants that produce more and bigger fruits in hot weather.

However i ran into a slight problem. Pumpkins are prolific growers they tend to take over their part of the garden. In areas where daytime rooftop temperatures normally exceed 95 f 35 c on a. Taking your pumpkins all the way to the roof top.

Here i am referring to the round or oval orange fruits that are a member of the squash family. For growing pumpkins in raised beds you can consider building a small mound of dirt and then plant your pumpkin seed at a depth of 1 2 inches. In cool summer areas growing pumpkins on the roof is actually advantageous on another level. So i went and started some seedlings planted them and a few weeks later they were thriving and happy pumpkin vines.

Helpful 2 not helpful 1. Some people grow pumpkins to eat others want a pumpkin to carve and then there are those who grow pumpkins as sport striving for the largest pumpkin they can grow.