Tips to growing pumpkins Tips to growing pumpkins Growing pumpkins is a relatively easy thing to do. They grow well in the Midwest, where the weather is cold in the winter but hot in the summer. Pumpkins need both in order to grow well.
Pumpkins are a very tough crop.
They can grow almost anywhere and under almost any conditions. Unlike many vegetables, they don t need to be fertilized, not even naturally. Though this is fine and won t harm them at all, it probably won t do much good. Even if the weather is bad, the pumpkins will grow. If no other crop survives, pumpkins will.