AGRICULTURAL NEWS - There is no one-size-fits-all recipe for growing pumpkins. This is especially true of spacing, where many factors have to be considered.
In South Africa, most pumpkin varieties are either ‘typical’ runners or compact runners.
The latter requires closer spacing than the varieties that produce long runners.
In some countries, bush-type varieties are available.The leaf area of these is not large enough to produce more than one or two fruits; for a better yield, the plants must be spaced very close together.
Ultimately, however, the type is less important than the size of fruit and the yield, or the number of fruit per hectare.
Seed is expensive, so space the plants further apart if you can still obtain a good yield.
