Pumpkins Are Coming, Maybe

We tried something new this year. We planted pumpkins in withour sorghum / sudan grass and buckwheat cover crop. The plan:

plant the pumpkins and cover crop in the area where we had just dug potatoes. The row was already covered with straw that we used around the potato plants

let the cover crop and pumpkins grow - the buckwheat grew first and was succeeded by the pumpkins and sorghum / sudan grass

weed around the pumpkins

let the pumpkins grown out into the grassy rows beyond the cover crop area

[future] hopefully harvest pumpkins

Doing this allows us to add organic matter to the soil when we terminate the sorghum / sudan grass and it composts over the winter. The sorghum / sudan grass also acts a a mulch for the winter cover crop. Hopefully we get a good harvest of pumpkins. Innovating in small ways means trying new things.

I'm looking foward to pumpkins!