Sweet Pumpkin

Step-by-step method

1. 1
   Step 1

   Choose the site

   Loamy soil in full sun. Mix 10–12 kg manure and some ash into each mound.

2. 2
   Step 2

   Soak

   Soak seeds for 12 hours.

3. 3
   Step 3

   Sow

   Make mounds 5–6 ft apart and sow 2–3 seeds per mound, 1 inch deep.

4. 4
   Step 4

   Let it spread

   Grow on the ground or a low trellis. On the ground, put straw under the fruit.

5. 5
   Step 5

   Pollinate

   In the morning, touch pollen from a male flower onto a female flower to set more fruit.

6. 6
   Step 6

   Harvest

   Pick mature pumpkins when the stalk turns brown and dry and the skin is hard.

🌱 General care: weed around the base once plants grow and water whenever the soil starts to dry.