Indoor Discount offers you quality seeds, carefully selected to guarantee rapid germination and vigorous plants
Grow your own "Atlantic Giant" pumpkins with our top-quality seeds. This pumpkin variety is renowned for its impressive size, reaching extraordinary weights. With its sweet, flavorful flesh, it's perfect for pies, soups, purées and much more. Our seeds are carefully selected to ensure vigorous, productive plants, allowing you to harvest giant pumpkins throughout the growing season.
Growing your own "Atlantic Giant" pumpkins will allow you to enjoy their delicious taste and versatility in the kitchen. Whether you use them to decorate your garden or prepare delicious dishes, these giant pumpkins will be an impressive addition to your vegetable garden.
Organically grown (AB)
Sowing: April / June
Harvest: August / October
Discover Gargantua pumpkin, also known as Atlantic Giant, a legendary variety that broke the world record for the largest pumpkin in 1996, weighing an impressive 481 kg in the USA. Why not try your hand at record-breaking too?
The Gargantua Atlantic Giant squash, of the runner variety, produces fruit often exceeding 1 meter in diameter, with very thick, light-orange flesh, albeit of average quality. Use them to make delicious soups or jams, or feed them to your farm animals in winter.
For successful sowing, plan to sow in April in pots placed in a well-lit spot with a minimum temperature of 12°C. Be sure to keep the soil moist, but not excessively so, to prevent the seeds from rotting. Then place your pots near a light source.
After transplanting in mid-May to a sunny spot, space the plants according to variety. Be sure to pinch the stems to stimulate development and hoe, weed and mulch the base to limit weeds and preserve moisture. As far as planting associations are concerned, avoid planting next to potatoes, but favor proximity to beans and cabbages.
If your pumpkin plant doesn't produce flowers or fruit, this may be due to a number of factors, including hot weather or a lack of pollination. To encourage pollination, attract pollinators to your garden by sowing floral mixes close to your cucurbit crops.
Finally, when harvesting and storing squash, keep an eye on the stalk, which becomes corky when the fruit is ready to be harvested. Cut the fruit as close as possible to the stem, leave to dry for a day in the sun, then store in a dry, ventilated place at between 12 and 20°C to preserve them effectively.
- Height: 150 to 400 cm
- Color: Orange
- Life cycle: Annual
- Type: Reproducible seeds
- Plant habit: Runner
- Soil: Moist
- Germination temperature: 20 °C
- Seed emergence: 5 to 10 days
- Sowing technique: In pots
- Sowing container: Cup
- Watering frequency: Moderate / Daily
- Exposure: Sun
- Foliage: Deciduous
- Hardiness: Frosty
- Planting: In the ground
- Spacing: 200 cm
- Sowing to harvesting: 100 days
