Milk fed squash question-nutrition

[Bubblingbrooks]

Curious about an aspect of milk feeding a pumpkin or squash.
Say that the pumpkin grows 4 times its normal size.
Is the nutrition in that pumpkin diluted? Or does it continue to
maintain with the size?

 

[Leta]

I cannot say this with 100% certainty, but my uncle has grown some whoppers by feeding milk (all pumpkins, though, no squash) and they were a bit pale, so my guess is that they may have had less of a Vit C/beta carotene content.

However, he was feeding them storebought milk. It occurs to me that if he was feeding them raw milk (wherein the Vit C from the grass the animal is eating isn't destroyed by heat) the vitamin content may not be diminished after all.

Also, the milk fed pumpkins were totally delicious.

 

[Neko-chan]

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[TanksHill]

First I've heard of it.

Have you ever read Farmer Boy? He raises his pumpkin for the fair this way.

Must be some kind of truth to it.


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[Bubblingbrooks]

First I've heard of it.

Have you ever read Farmer Boy? He raises his pumpkin for the fair this way.

Must be some kind of truth to it.


g

Its a rather common way to grow the super big veges. People been doing it for a very long time.
Farmer Boy also talks about that pumpkin being paler in color...

 

[Neko-chan]

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[Bubblingbrooks]

I haven't heard of either, to be honest, lol. But it's a neat idea. I wonder how they figured that one out?

No idea!
I want to become a contender in the giant vege contest up here, so I need to start experimenting next year.
I need a cabbage that weighs at least 70 pounds to be a contender.

Two years ago, I grew on that on its own, weighed 25 pounds

 

[Neko-chan]

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[Bubblingbrooks]

I suppose you'd need a naturally large variety of cabbage, and then give it the primest conditions you can: perfect soil with right pH, enough fertilizer, no competition, etc. And the milk.

Yup. That is how it is done. We often grow the giant variety.
I want eventually try a pumpkin, but the biggest one this year was over 600 pounds

 

[Wannabefree]

600 pounds is rather large, how the heck did they show it!? I have heard of milk feeding, and use it on my own garden too. It keeps pests at bay too.