Getting bigger… no flowers.
Currently just piling on the dirt as the vine gets longer.
Each node where a leave is produced is also an opportunity for the vine to send roots, so piling dirt allows those roots to be produced, more roots mean a vine that is big and healthy because the vine will get more nutrition. According to the pumpkin growing videos on YouTube, it seems to be a good thing to do to grow a larger pumpkin… by getting the largest and healthiest vine.
Ideally we will also be clipping off early flowers, but until we see them, we won’t make that decision.
