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Cologne / Germany

Not to highjack Owens thread, this is another question I´d like to hear about from other growers for 2005.
I´ll go with 2 plants again, x-mas, 600 sqft each, and a pollinator plant somewhere else in the garden. It all depends on the limited space I have though it looks there´s a tendency to go with smaller patches (and plants) in general.

1/7/2005 4:08:37 PM

Hilpoltstein, Bavaria, Germany

30 to 40 m2

1/7/2005 4:18:50 PM

Belgium

4 plants on +/- 280 m2

1/7/2005 4:29:26 PM

C N Y

i am thinking i would LIKE to plant like 10 or 11 plants again this year, but this time the vines will be intensively buried, and the plant size will be limited to 500 square feet, and a lot more time will be put-into
getting rid of weeds and/or just basically preventing them.
and, i need a new philosophy on the number of fruit on each plant; ONE per plant, PLUS a shock absorber for genetics only, probably a selfer, and that's it. then, down to ONE
that is 1500-plus, for the weighoff, of course. i mean, let's say i have these 10 plants. if the ones i have each have only ONE fruit on each of them, then EACH plant gets ONE chance to really put-out a monsterous fruit. if i have 5 plants, each with TWO pumpkins on it, then i may have more pumpkins, but not nearly as many MONSTEROUS ones.
yeah, i know, like no kidding. but maybe i should plant a
few MORE plants, limit the size of each one and rely on the increased care that they ALL receive this time around because of their smaller size but improved genetics.
just rambling common knowledge, but it helps to talk it out.

1/7/2005 4:39:11 PM

Central Mi

I will run 32 plants in a 22,000 sf garden. This worked well for me last year. Most of the fruit that made the season where 600-976 lbs. I am hoping to start a new patch this year the same size to allow one patch to be worked and apply cover crops for a few season to improve the soil conditions. Todd

1/7/2005 5:05:26 PM

Butler, Ohio

2 plants on a 15 x 50 patch. 3-4 plants on a 1 acre plot.

1/7/2005 10:20:33 PM

Halifax, Nova Scotia

2 plants, 300 sq. ft. of good soil for each, then unlimited room to grow on hard packed clay. This is an improvement over last year's 10x10 garden with 4 plants growing all over the yard, and will hopefully be improved on again next fall, expanding to 1200 sq. ft. with 2 plants. I've got all the room I need to grow, I just don't have any dirt, it has to be trucked in.

1/8/2005 9:49:47 AM

Ontario, Canada.

Competiton plants 500sq.ft. in flag or xmas tree patterns.
Pollinator plants 200sq.ft or less.

1/8/2005 9:51:57 AM

Deer Park, WI

LIke Russ, my competition 12 plants will be in the 500-600sq ft range each and in the X-mas tree pattern.

1/10/2005 9:10:48 AM

Nova Scotia

i'm doing 4 on about 4000'sq but i have unlimedted space (acres).

1/10/2005 9:49:53 AM

Follansbee, Wv

I am doing 6 plants on just over 3000 sq ft, or about 500 per plant.

1/10/2005 12:42:10 PM

Indiana

three in a 1000 +/- and two in an 800+/- and one in a smaller area around 250

1/10/2005 6:50:00 PM