Fall Pumpkin Harvest in Georgia!

[@dovebuster]

Love your videos! You mentioned The Veggie Boys. Another great channel!

[@PatrickShivers]

Thanks for watching! Early dove season is almost here

[@dovebuster]

@@PatrickShivers Yes sir. Opens Sept. 23rd here in Florida. I'm counting the minutes.

[@RobB-cy5gu]

Great work and video Patrick! Keep them coming!

[@PatrickShivers]

Thanks for watching/commenting Rob!

[@luisnunes7933]

Hello, Patrick! Pumpkins are very healthy food for us, too!

[@gregrhodes8451]

I enjoy your videos Patrick! Great looking pumpkins. God bless you

[@PatrickShivers]

Thanks for watching/commenting Greg

[@colefletcher-ox7xd]

Those are some good looking pumpkins!

[@PatrickShivers]

All I did was put the seed in the ground. The Lord sent the rains and made the conditions conducive for growth. I had near total pumpkin crop failure last year…and they were all irrigated.

[@colefletcher-ox7xd]

@@PatrickShivers The lord will take care of us

[@allanhartle344]

Great education on growing pumpkins, but you left us faithful viewers hanging on the weight at the scale house. I am planning on going to the Moultrie farm show this year and if you are going would , like to meet you..thanks again for your willingness to share both personal and farming. Your honesty about your baptism was heart felt and glad you shared. As you know a farming businnes not Godly founded is a strugle. Thanks again.

[@PatrickShivers]

I do plan on going to the Ag Expo this year. I don’t know which date yet as I will likely be harvesting peanuts at that time. 1600 pounds and change rolled across the scales.

[@mllee2008]

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[@PatrickShivers]

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[@johngreer8101]

That's some hard work! Reminds me of helping my daddy carry watermelons out of the field.

[@PatrickShivers]

Watermelon harvest ain’t no joke!

[@CuriousEarthMan]

Very informative video and fun to watch! Thank you very much!

[@PatrickShivers]

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[@davidmontgomery8346]

Man I miss growing pumpkins. Orange Bulldog always did great for me. They sure do all look different. Any luck with the varieties that I sent you? Hopefully they turn out good and you can get some seed from them. Show them in a video if they turn out ok. Here is a little info about how I use to plant them. I got an old Cole one row planter, did not have the correct plates, so made a long seed tube so I could walk beside the planter and drop a seed about every half revolution of the press wheel. Later on I planted no till pumpkins, used the same planter and hand fed it, just added a big coulter in front of the planter and some extra weight. That worked out good too. Planted rye and crimson clover the fall before the no till pumpkins. One day I plan on planting some pumpkins again. It can be done successfully in south alabama/GA.

[@PatrickShivers]

They had near 100% germination. They are probably 3 weeks behind in maturity, but are doing great. I really appreciate the seed and I will show them in a future video.

[@oldfarmshow]

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[@ryanfarmsproduce]

Got a friend that grows Orange Bulldog here in NW Louisiana. Been growing them for 4-5 years strictly because of their virus resistance. Can’t grow any other varieties because of the viruses. They always do really well. He has them irrigated.

[@PatrickShivers]

They are tough. We just finished 2 weeks of no rain at 100+ degrees. They wilt back during the day, but looked fresh every morning.

[@simonsays365]

you're pretty good but i do not suggest twisting the pumpkin off AT ALL. If you are wanting your pumpkin to last months then it needs a long clean cut stem to reduce the chance of rot.

[@justlooking2013]

Thx for the pumpkin lesson

[@PatrickShivers]

7.2k on your corn harvest video. We need some more drone corn harvest videos.

[@johndycus6468]

Have you ever tried growing miniature pumpkins? I live in west TN and I have good luck with Wee-B-Little, Jack-B-Little and Baby Boo mini pumpkins. Big Max giant pumpkins have worked well for me as well. I have to spray fungicide and insecticide for squash bugs on the giant pumpkins but they are not for consumption.

[@PatrickShivers]

One of my 4 failed varieties from last year was a miniature. I don’t remember off the top of my head what it was, but I think it may be in one of my videos.

[@jonathanbitzer]

How close do you plant to get a full canopy?

[@lenardo1970]

Good video. I live in the Dothan area and wonder how the bulldog variety would do here?

[@PatrickShivers]

A viewer of mine grows them successfully in Mobile area. Dothan is 35-40 minutes west of me. Anything that grows here should be fine there as well.

[@williamsjesse85]

I’ve been wanting to try pumpkins. Where do you get those seed from. I haven’t seen them in any of my farm stores in in north Florida

[@PatrickShivers]

Direct from UGA. Google search Orange Bulldog pumpkin. Then find the UGA CAES link.

[@williamsjesse85]

Thanks

[@greenboyatgafarms2250]

So what do you recommend spacing pumpkins on dry land? Might try a couple of acres this year myself.

[@PatrickShivers]

It’s different per variety. I did 6’ between rows and 2’ in row with my main variety last fall. Some varieties want as much as 20’ in row

[@greenboyatgafarms2250]

@@PatrickShivers thanks for the tip

[@k.p.1139]

Do you think I can put those in here in Central Fl.? Seems like it was a quick turn-around.

[@PatrickShivers]

Yes

[@fllavour]

What weed control do u do? looks very weed free compared to my fields. Looks amazing for no herbicide, i usually spray roundup the year before then plant with weed free. As the pumpkins still are small i can run with a machine to clear the rows but then even though the pumpkins cover everything i get ton of weeds anyways ..

[@PatrickShivers]

This was double cropped behind green beans. It was a late June planting so most weeds seeds had germinated before plowing. Got a rain after plowing then ran the field cultivator to smooth off and eliminate any new germination, followed by direct seeding at a pretty tight spacing. Canopy luckily formed quickly & suppressed weeds. I have a different variety planted down center of field on a 20’ spacing and it got completely inundated with weeds. 2-3’ in row spacing 6’ between rows quickly covered the ground.

[@fllavour]

@@PatrickShivers We do the field cultivator right before planting pre-grown pumpkin plants. So theres no weed in the beginning, But maybe the biggest problem for me is that I use a pasture field(grass for the cows) not sure what its called in english, but i guess using a field where previously wheat or some crops would have been grown would make the weed less dominant next year. There's alot of couch grass and "Chenopodium album" but still get a good crop. Weeding by hand is a bummer though

[@PatrickShivers]

@@fllavour my 2022 pumpkins were nearly entirely ruined by grasses. The difference in 2023 was plowing. I plowed 15-18 inches deep. So the grass seeds were buried over a foot deep. Plowing brought up weed seeds that I then eliminated with cultivator after germinating. All that still didn’t work in the wide spaced portion down center of field. I think tight spacing is the key.

[@fllavour]

@@PatrickShivers Ok thanks, will try something different like that this year :) good luck with your pumpkins

[@TheNewsouthoutdoors]

How much did the pumpkins weigh? And calculated yield per acre?

[@PatrickShivers]

1600 and change on that load. Looks like 4 tons/acre on first pass. Still have immatures and blooms trying to make more.

[@tugboat2739]

Howdy Patrick

[@PatrickShivers]

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[@KnottsoRude]

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