A Crazy Trick for Growing TONS of Pumpkins and Winter Squash

Here's a way to grow lots of pumpkins with no ground prep and with incredible results. It also works to grow winter squash and melons! Give it a try.

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[AndyMatts]

“A pumpkin ate my daughter’s garden.” —David the Good. 🤣

[KittyMama]

I threw some local peach seeds onto a compost heap next to the old smokehouse. The trees grew up out of it, 2 of them, and made the best peaches I've ever had.

[coldhaven]

I think you're absolutely right. You HAVE to make it look like an accidental planting. We had some pumpkins from a local farmer that turned into mush. Now I have two very vibrant vines growing in my back yard. Its a secret. Don't let them know you're planning anything. Just casually drop them on the ground. I bet if you say "oops" when you do it, they'll grow even faster. Wait...what did I do with those mushy pumpkins? *looks at compost* Uh, oh!

[monikasturm]

I estimate by next year my husband will plant pumpkins. The first year he said no to yellow squash the next year he planted them and i asked for cucumbers he said no but this year he planted some. I asked this year for pumpkins and he said no so I'll check back on the video next year again when he plants the pumpkins. Hehe

[mattpeacock]

When accidents teach you more than any book reading could.

I think it's devine intervention

[hanzketchup]

The Great Pumpkin has smiled on you David the Good!

[mgguygardening]

Nature finds a way! A few years ago I had a black garbage can that I used for compost, with holes drilled up and down the side of it to allow air flow for the compost. I ended up with cherry tomato plants growing out of the holes on the side of the can, some of the best cherry tomatoes I've grown LOL!

[jsbadger]

This is why i love watching you and Charles Dowding. Compost saves pumpkin lives.

[helenbrown]

Cut your pumpkins and squash with a really long stalk they store for much longer as rot doesn’t get in to the stalk

[mio.giardino]

Shhhh David, don’t let the seeds hear you, they’ll know 😳

[lisescheiman]

Compost your enemies reminded me of the film Fried Green Tomatoes😂❤❤❤❤

[unitedstatesdale]

My grandpa grows huge perfect tomatoes out of trash cans he filled up with grandmas leftovers and leaves he raked up.
Lol..
Its Uncanny 😊

[jettyeddie_m]

After years of struggling to grow chayote it’s now become a problem it came back after the winter from last year with a vengeance and is now a thick ground cover, i planted pumpkins and I’m gonna let them duke it out, may the strongest cucurbit Win!

[TheDiversifiedFarmer]

This image is one of most homeschool things I've ever seen

[jordynporter]

Just dug holes in my yard because I swore you said it was successful 😂 here goes a Missouri experiment I guess! Love what you do. I found you by accident when I looked up permaculture books at the library. My whole perspective on gardening has been changed!

[gigiartstudiowithartistvir]

Much like the discovery you made, I made too with tomatoes and watermelons in particular. I planted them and didn't look at them at all for almost 6 weeks during the middle of summer. When I got back to the garden it was a jungle! The watermelons and tomatoes went wild and sprawled out everywhere. I didn't feed these plants, I didn't prune out suckers are extra runners, and I didn't have anything for them to grow on but the ground. The tomatoes and watermelons got entangled with one another. I never had so many watermelons and tomatoes in my 50+ years of gardening, doing NOTHING. The only thing they got while I was away was water from a drip line on a timer. The weeds also took over the space and entangled into my watermelons and tomatoes. It was a big gnarly beautiful mass of gorgeous produce. That one watermelon vine(Crimson Sweet) had 30 gorgeous melons mature before I had to remove the vine. The tomatoes(golden currant and roma)easily produced a couple hundred maters from two plants! I'm fortunate to have the space for letting things go wild. This season I'm experimenting again and just tossing a mix of all kinds of fruit and veggie seeds all over the ground of about 30 different kinds of veggies and fruit. Should be interesting! Love your channel and philosophy of growing food.

[IntegratedPestManagement]

"every frame is a painting on these videos" - love it

[almostoily]

Ahhh, the shirt I love... matches my retro kitchen 😍
I wonder if I accidentally spilled some pumpkin seeds under my old rabbit hutches what the results would be... the jelly melon grows up and over the tree. That'll give the ground to the pumpkins.
Thinking 🤔... I might do what another comment said and as I trip and spill seeds, I'll say, " oops!!!" Really loud 😅

[SmallSeeds]

“They can’t know that they were planted. It has to be a secret.” 🤫 🎃🌿 this is so true! Btw this thumbnail is top tier. Thanks for the great content as usual.

[ConscientiousOmnivore]

The best squash yield I ever had was volunteer butternut squash that grew out of our compost pile as a volunteer plant. This totally makes sense! Those were some really beautiful pumpkins you grew!