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I live in NE USA (Maine), I usurally wait until spring and snow gone and frost out of ground, sometimes the season doesn’t seem long enough, so I want to start inside, with seed and have healthy seedlings to put in ground.
I live in NE USA (Maine), I usurally wait until spring and snow gone and frost out of ground, sometimes the season doesn’t seem long enough, so I want to start inside, with seed and have healthy seedlings to put in ground.
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if you start pumpkins inside, do as you said, and you can start them when you feel like it as long as you are able to care for them inside.
if you started them now , in Maine, they might be too big, id wait till the end of march.
it is a great time to start most of your veggies indoors. Pumpkins are a little different though. They only take about 3 months to mature, and since most people want to have ripe pumpkins in the fall rather than the summer, most wait until May or so to plant their pumpkin seeds. however, if you want to start them inside, go ahead and just set them out when the last threat of frost is gone.
I start my pumpkins around April 15th.That gives them time to get good size for planting outdoors the first of June.I live in Michigan.
You can start growing pumpkins whenever you would like inside your house, and then plant them in soil when it gets to spring.
Since it is winter, I suggest you plant it inside soon and when it doesn’t freeze, plant them in fertile soil with no interruptions.
3 to 6 weeks before planting outside. You want them big enough to transplant…….3 is a little young but OK, 6 weeks the roots probably haven’t filled the container too badly to transplant. You don’t want to be setting out a plant with too few or roots so badly tangled they will not easily move into the fresh garden soil.
You should make a plant bed in your garden not inside your home. In planting make a plant bed first for starting and waiting the seeds to sprouts then you can transfer them into a big area that’s enough.