Pumpkin Production Experiment Photos

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Pumpkin Production Trial Plots. The rye plots in the foreground were rolled with a Buffalo stalk chopper.


Pumpkin Production Trial Plots before pumpkin planting. Rolled rye plots are in the foreground, then the bare ground plots and the black plastic plots in the background.

In the photos below, the pumpkins are representative of the yields from each treatment.

Bareground plots with directly seeded pumpkins.

Bareground plots with transplanted pumpkins.

Bareground with black plastic mulch and
directly seeded pumpkins.

Bareground with black plastic mulch and
transplanted pumpkins.

Rolled rye plots with directly seeded pumpkins.

Rolled rye plots with transplanted pumpkins.

Cornell Commercial Vegetable Production 

Comments or questions?  Contact:

Anusuya Rangarajan 
Statewide specialist for 
Fresh Market Vegetable Production
ar47@cornell.edu 

Department of Horticulture
121 Plant Science Building 
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

(607) 255-1780; Fax: (607) 255-9998