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Changing plant direction

12 years ago

This is my first time planting pumpkins as well as gardening.

Right now I had a raised bed garden with pumpkins planted in the far corners. I was late getting the bed together and transplanted the pumpkins(they sprouted on the 12th and were transplanted the 20th) Also in the bed are some very young corn and bean seedlings.

My problem is one of the pumpkin plants is heavily angled towards the area of the bed where I have the corn seedlings and its beginning to shade a few. How do I redirect the growth away from the bed and instead have it grow off the side of the bed to the space I have cleared for it?

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tcstoehr
12 years ago
It's fairly easy. Just bend the vines over in the direction you want them to go, and push a stick in the ground to keep it from flopping back. If it's too radical to do at once, do it in stages.
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