Pumpkins???

None of my pumpkin plants produced any pumpkins. Planted July 1, lots of yellow blossoms but no fruit. Soil tests show its about average, fertilized once and the vines are up to 2 ft long?

Weed pressure, and planted 3 weeks later than I have ever planted them...

Yup and yup.

Paul

'Looks like volunteer pumpkins in your pasture. I found volunteer tomatoes (prolific) in one of my pastures that's located about 100 yards down hill from our garden this summer.

I have no idea what the term volunteer means?
As you can see I know nothing about farming!!!

You planeted to late. The weeds are sucking the moisture out of ground that they need. And it looks like you ground is lacking something(leaves are small for pumpkins).

Pumpkins like a heavy feed, and hills (mounded rows in field culture, since hills as done by hand in the garden are not easily made with tractors.) They are not overly fond of competition, though they can work with other plants (as in native american 3-sisters - corn/beans/squash (squash and pumpkins being basically the same thing.) You have anemic-looking pumpkins in the midst of so many weeds that it looks like you dropped some pumpkin seed in an established grass pasture.

A "volunteer" plant is one that you didn't intentionally plant - ie, a crop-seed "weed" - this stand is so barely there, that's what it looks like. I have some throwback volunteer tomatoes in my garden this year that are clearly from plants I haven't grown for 5 years or more - I'm happy to take the tomatoes from them, though, so volunteers are not always bad. Having your crop be so bad (or your weeds be so good) that your crop appears to be a volunteer and your weeds appear to be the crop is rather bad, generally.

If you are going to try farming (I guess you did, once) you might want to learn a bit about it (there are books - read a few - we are going to have a bit of a job to try and educate you on the subject if you don't do a bit of self-educating.) But remember the old farmer who won a few million in the lottery, and when asked what he'd be doing with it, said "I guess I'll just keep farming until it's gone..." ;-) Even when you do everything right, the weather/pests/etc. can do you in, or everyone else also has a bumper crop and none of you can sell it for what you paid to grow it.

Volunteer means they came up from seed from last year as in old tomatoes thrown out or pumpkins left in the garden.

Too much competition from weeds. Plant sooner, water, feed and mulch with leaves if you can.

well here is what i did--I had good pumpkins here last year--disced the soil well so no grass showing---I limed,planted 5 rows --50 ft long--2 ft on center--fertilized with 10-10-10
had super hot and dry weather in july so maybe they lost a month?
also--i used the seeds from the pumpkins last year

I'd say they didn't get pollinated. Were there any other flowering plants or clover nearby to attract insects like bees and butterflys? Try planting some annual flowers close to the pumpkin patch next year to attract some.

started learning how to plow today--had heavy grass/sod that i want to get rid of. Just bought this 2 bottom plow.

should i disc this fall or wait for spring??