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Posted by ninjabut USDA z 8,CA (My Page) on Fri, Jan 15, 10 at 21:46
We received a BUNCH of giant pumpkin seeds, but have never grown them. The only pumpkins we have grown were volunteers in a raised bed.
My problem is gophers (the reason for the raised beds).
I was going to start making gopher cages to plant pumpkins in, but there are a couple of questions.
How deep do pumpkin roots go? Will a 2 gal sized cage do the trick, or will the gophers just munch on, and kill the plants?
TIA Nancy |
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| Would raised boxes be better? Less digging. Again, I need to know how deep those roots will go and how deep to protect them? |
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