Seminole pumpkin
FloridaFlora
19 years ago
Featured Answer
Sort by:Oldest
Comments (37)
carolyn137
19 years agocherig22
19 years agoRelated Discussions
how to grow Seminole pumpkins ???
Comments (17)jadegarden, I hope you didn't just jinx yourself by saying that. Whenever I say that a certain pest hasn't shown up, it always seems to show up almost immediately, as if it wants to prove me wrong. About 1 year out of 5, I don't have SVBs or squash bugs show up at all. Last year was one of those years for me, Maybe this year is one of those years for you, as far as the pickle worms go. We'd like to have the same kind of crystal ball for freezes here. Our winters are trending warmer as well, but we had one cold spell back in January that was very cold for a few days. I'm in zone 7b and we dropped to 4 degrees. Luckily, it didn't last long, and before long we were hitting highs in the 70s, 80s and 90s, which is not normal in Oklahoma in January so we understand exactly what you're saying about the trend towards warmer winters. I'm glad you've been enjoying reading here, now that we know you are here, you do realize we expect to see you speaking with us regularly. I expect you have much to add to our discussions even if you think you don't. Once you've joined the family here, we worry if you aren't showing up and talking, so.....I hope you'll continue talking with us. I suspect that except for the timing of planting, we probably have a lot in common with regard to gardening in difficult climates. When you have drought conditions occurring, the low humidity follows as whatever moisture is in the ground evaporates and whatever moisture is in the plants transpires with no rain falling to replace it. During our worst drought periods, whether in winter or summer, it is not unheard of, especially in western OK, to have the RH drop into the single digits. When it is that dry, is is scary. I have my own relative humidity detection device---my skin. Whenever the humidity gets down to about 18%, my skin feels like it is cracking. Wildfires become much more likely to start once the humidity drops to around 30%, and if it drops down to 15%, fires start ridiculously easily---even from a vehicle dragging a chain, or from a tire blowout on a road that sends pieces of hot rubber into a field or along the side of the road, catching fire whever that piece of tire lands. When we get paged out for multiple fires along the interstate all at the same time, it almost always is a dragging chain, a blown-out tire, or something similar. Unless it is arson. We also get plenty of fires started by people burning something they shouldn't be burning or burning while the wind it too high or the humidity too low, etc. Our wildfire season ended about a month ago when the rain showed up and fell in nice amounts over a period of days. It was quite a relief. Hopefully y'all will catch a break and get some rain too and that will relieve the fire danger somewhat. It is awful that it is so bad there now and you haven't even started your official fire season yet. (Our fire seasons don't follow the rules ever and start very early some years.) I cannot imagine Florida without green grass, and I know how scary it is when everything turns brown. I hope you can save your plants. It is tough to be stuck between a rock and a hard place when water costs so much and water restrictions may be in place, compounding the issue, and then rain just stubbornly refuses to fall. I agree that snakes, when aggressive, are incredibly dangerous and cannot be tolerated in the yard. After water moccasins moved into our lily pond during the horrendous drought of 2011-2014 dried up all our ponds and creeks, we gave up, drained the water, and filled in the pond. Because the pond sat just outside our back door, alongside a pathway that runs from our house to our detached garage, there was no way we could keep that lily pond, but I really miss it. If you killed one water moccasin, another one moved in, and they are very aggressive. I miss the lily pond, but I don't miss looking down into the water and seeing that cottonmouth looking at me, mouth open, in a menacing way. Copperheads are not too bad overall, all things considered. They'd rather not bite you, and they'll slither away if there's a way for them to do that. If cornered or surprised, they certainly will bite. Their venom, assuming a person is not allergic, is not nearly as bad as that of other snakes, like rattlesnakes, for example. Our next door neighbors have had two people bitten by copperheads at their place, about 10 years apart, but we haven't had that happen here yet. We have had lots of close calls. The timber rattlers worry me more. For some reason, they like to come out of the neighbor's cow pasture (which has a woodland in the center of it), slither across about 8' feet of grass that we keep mowed very short, cross our gravel driveway and enter the fenced veggie garden through the gate. I constantly run into them at the gate from roughly June through August. We have done some work to our gate, replacing the gate itself with a Victorian style screen door with a firm latch. Tim replaced the bottom couple of feet of screening with sturdy plywood, and then he built a wooden threshold across the bottom of the entry arbor so that the door can be closed tightly to keep snakes from slithering under the door. That seems to be keeping the larger timber rattlers out of the garden, but the smaller one come through the fence. My dream is not for world peace or a colony of explorers on Mars---my dream is just to have a snake-free garden. Is that too much to ask? I like the idea of a snake trap, but someone else would have to deal with that trap once a snake is in it because I'm not going to do it. Please be careful with all those creatures invading your yard. That is exactly how things go from bad to worse here when all the wildlife gets hot, tired and hungry. Of course they come to our cultivated yard and garden areas where they are more likely to find something (anything) to eat or drink. We always have lots of innocent, sweet, non-poisonous lizards, toads and frogs in the garden eating bugs and things all the time until the snakes get hungry. Once the snakes show up, all our pretty little toads and frogs disappear. I hate it. I hope you get a good harvest of Seminoles. That happened here in 2011. We didn't have any rain for a couple of months and the high temperatures were over 100 (often well over 100) for about 70 days straight. The Seminole plants just sort of sat there. Then, we had rain on at least two days (finally!) in August, and the plants went berserk, grew like mad and produced dozens of pumpkins, which I harvested in November and December. Since the Seminole rind is so tough, even when I missed some and didn't get them harvested before the first freeze, it didn't matter. When I did find them after the vines froze, I harvested them all and lined them up in the garage to cure. Most were still green but hadn't suffered any freeze damage. Over the next two or three months, they slowly turned their usuall buff color and were usable. They tasted perfectly fine. I never would have expected Seminole to rebound like that after that horrific drought (when even our native cacti died!) but it did. George, So, now I can say I know someone who did have to deal with pickle worms. That is good to know. If they ever show up here, you'll be our Oklahoma pickle worm expert, and Jade can advise us from Florida too. Just talking about pickle worms is making my skin crawl. They are ugly little critters. I hope they don't show up here since we didn't have a winter. Texas to our south didn't have a winter either. I believe their last freezing temperature was recorded January 8th, so the pickle worms, if they got an early start in the Gulf coast parts of Texas, could be on their way here already. I hope we aren't jinxing anyone by talking about them. Dawn...See MoreSeminole Pumpkin Question
Comments (2)The Seminole pumpkin seems to set fruit late after the vines get real long. Give it some time and it should start producing. Check out David Goodman's website for Seminole Pumpkin info Seminole Pumpkin project I harvested about 24 pumpkins off two vines. Hopefully yours will do the same. Craig...See MoreSeminole Pumpkins ?
Comments (1)Yes. I plant them in hills 8' apart. In an average year the vines can run from 15-25' or longer (it largely is dependent on how much moisture they get), but I grow them mostly vertically on fences/trellises that are 8' tall, and once they hit the top they run sideways, or they climb the fence and go up into the trees. Seminole will take all the space you give them and fill it up and just keep on going....See MoreSeminole pumpkin question
Comments (2)I've never grown Seminole but i have grown pumpkin and it should ripe with out a problem.i would take it inside...See Morecarolyn137
19 years agoFloridaFlora
19 years agocherig22
19 years agocherig22
19 years agodonna_in_tn
19 years agoJennifer Kosco
18 years agodzipple
18 years agoHoosierCheroKee
18 years agopepperhead212
18 years agodzipple
18 years agoufdionysus
18 years agowinter_unfazed
18 years agoJudgeStoryteller_aol_com
17 years agomike_marietta_sc_z8a
15 years agolillieinal
15 years agomike_marietta_sc_z8a
15 years agojudgestoryteller
15 years agomikemary
14 years agobobbic
14 years agomikemary
14 years agokandm
14 years agoBob (Seattle, Zone 8a)
14 years agoBob (Seattle, Zone 8a)
13 years agoliz1231
13 years agokat1_2010
13 years agoBob (Seattle, Zone 8a)
13 years agomiamitxpi
13 years agobuckstop319
13 years agotaffyj
13 years agoroydtaff68_yahoo_com
12 years agoCarrie Beth (zone 9b)
8 years agoOzarkHeather
8 years agoJeff Hogan
7 years agoMacmex
6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
Bob (Seattle, Zone 8a)