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aurora, IL

My family and I have been gardening at the Oakhurst forest preserve run by the Fox valley park district for 6 years. Recently they changed some of the rules like: not being allowed to take what we have grown back to our garden plots to be buried. There are other rules that will be changed or added later. So, now I have Scarface(417 Chandler 12.4%heavy) that is slowly rotting in our backyard and have to figure out what to do with her! :( Does anyone that gardens in community garden plots have the same problems or different ones?

10/19/2016 10:28:12 AM

Germany

Are you allowed to add compost to your garden?
Are you allowed to have a compost pile in your garden?

That would be a different story than simply taking something back into the garden and to bury it.

If you aren´t allowed to bury anything, an AG would probably be the smallest problem, just let it sit and turn into juice, it will flow into the ground sooner or later. It could look like you had left a pumpkin in your garden (or is there any rule that you need to remove everything out of the garden by fall?) If you could leave your pumpkin in the garden on top of the patch, sooner or later they will probably kindly ask you to bury it ;-)

10/19/2016 12:50:54 PM

aurora, IL

When they are open from April 15-Oct.15. Not after the plots are closed from Oct. 16 thru April 14. The rule is that everything from plant to non-plant material has to be removed. Then, the plots get mowed down and then it gets all tilled in. Also, most of the other gardeners due not follow this rule. They leave their stuff(plant and non-plant) in their plot(s). Then, the park district comes when the plots close and remove all of the non-plant material. Then, they will mow down the plots with a tractor that has a pto driven mower deck on the back. Then, finally all that stuff gets tilled back into the soil.

10/19/2016 1:26:03 PM

Sharon, MA

I put all kinds of stuff back into my Community Garden, But never a old pumpkin or Pumpkin Vines or other Pumpkin rotting vegitation. It potentially harbors wintering over molds like powdery mildew spores, and its an excellent food source for diseases like fusarium. But I add a ton of other ferts and fungicides...they don't care at our community garden

10/19/2016 1:32:57 PM

aurora, IL

Last year I had cut up Rocky(504 Chandler) and Terminator(438 Chandler) and spread the pieces out in my patch and found out that only the flesh will rot away, but the skin will just dry out and harden. I have not had a real problem with soil diseases, but more from insects. The reason why no one can dump anything on the plots is because last winter someone had dumped stuff in their plot, a deer was eating it got scared and ran into the road and was hit by a car.

10/19/2016 1:50:23 PM

Germany

If getting rid of the pumpkin is your only problem right now, then you should find someone who has some cows, sheep or pigs on the farm, they will love your pumpkin and the farmer will be happy, too.

10/19/2016 1:54:15 PM

aurora, IL

The pumpkin is already rotting. I will try to bury most of it in the flower bed in the first of our house.

10/19/2016 1:59:31 PM

Central NY

Tannerite

10/19/2016 4:02:05 PM

aurora, IL

Porkchop, I'll just send you the clean up bill. lol ;)

10/19/2016 7:19:11 PM

JACKSON, WISCONSIN. ; )

I too vote tannerite.. if u get enough it will make your pumpkin into vapor... I found 1 pound of tannerite to 100 pounds of kin works real nice.. the more the better but that ratio will leave no trace....

10/19/2016 7:53:19 PM

aurora, IL

That sounds cool, but not possible where I live.

10/19/2016 8:51:03 PM

Upa Creek, MO

A machete and some elbow grease... or fine chop it, spread over lawn, around trees and it will be gone in a week. I stress fine chop. I do this every year, but it's usually in August when mine splits.

10/19/2016 9:08:35 PM

Minnesota

I just take the seeds out and let it rot. Not alot of demand for my pb of 746.

10/24/2016 11:53:49 PM