2713 Hayner Road
Janesville, WI 53548
(608) 757-1200
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What is a pumpkin? orange fruit - does not have to be orange pumpkins come in all sizes and shapes--just like people! can eat it can decorate it Seeds - all pumpkins start from seeds - small seeds make small pumpkins, big seeds make big pumpkins Planting pumpkins - plant pumpkins in late Spring about the time you are getting finished with the school year - we get the ground all ready then put the seeds just under the dirt, we use a machine because we plant so many, but you can plant them by hand Growing pumpkins 3 things needed to grow the pumpkin after it is planted: -water (rain) -sunlight -bees! Do you know why? Bees need the pumpkins so they can make honey and pumpkins need the bees to move the pollen from blossom to blossom so pumpkins will grow Stages of a pumpkin plant -seed leaves, two leaves that start the plant but then fall off -vine leaves, prickly leaves that grow fast -vines soon spread far away from where the seed leaves came out of the ground, (show how long vines get) leaves get so big they shade the whole ground and you cannot see the pumpkins growing--this protects the pumpkin from hot sun of the summer -blossoms--male and female -male blossom falls off after pollination, female blossom forms the pumpkin--blossoms are only open for a short time every morning and that's when the bees have to do their work or there will be no pumpkins -most pumpkins start out green and then turn color about the time you go back to school in August Other things that grow on vines -squash part of same family as pumpkins--also come in all sizes and shapes -gourds--not for eating |
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