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Growing pumpkin on roof.
In areas where daytime rooftop temperatures normally exceed 95 f 35 c on a.
A house a person once bought had an overgrown pumpkin patch with a pumpkin growing on the roof.
Wherever a pumpkin starts growing any plants underneath will.
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.
The term pumpkin can be confusing meaning different things in different places.
Here i am referring to the round or oval orange fruits that are a member of the squash family.
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.
Keep them apart from other plants so that they have lots of room to grow.
In cool summer areas growing pumpkins on the roof is actually advantageous on another level.
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.
So i went and started some seedlings planted them and a few weeks later they were thriving and happy pumpkin vines.
It s warmer up there and pumpkins are heat loving plants that produce more and bigger fruits in hot weather.
Pumpkins are prolific growers they tend to take over their part of the garden.
However there s a limit to how much good heat can do.