Has anyone grown pumpkins before

Good luck. I have tried in the past, and learned they need plenty of water like watermelons and both need well-draining beddings areas, or the pumpkin/watermelon itself rots before ripening.

We've tried at our home garden, but haven't had the best success with getting a larger pumpkin. They end up much smaller.

Yes, I've grown them before. Make sure they have plenty of room because the vines get huge

Did pumpkins about 5 years ago this is easy I thought about a third got destroyed by insects and rot but it was ok. They haven't worked since.

My parents grow orange squashes. So far they've been successful but it's always a fight with slugs.

This type:

They are impressive. My father did. Not sure he did much more than prepae the soil, sow the seeds, thin down and "let if grow".

No.

They appear in markets, magically, without ANYone EVER having grown them. EVER.

They aren't hard to grow, nor the other squashes, incl. zucchini.

You might ask a local farming/agricultural expert about what might have gone wrong.

I haven't but i love pumpkins

I do I just use a chisel plow and throw seeds out in handfuls. Then go though with a water tanksprayer and I just leave it alone.

I wanted to try but I don’t know. Never done it before.

Only once by dumb luck -- we must have thrown out a pumpkin in the yard and once, years ago, we realized we had a pumpkin vine growing along the lawn and up into the evergreen trees. The pumpkins were actually full grown an d hanging from the trees by Halloween-time, but then someone smashed them all in the middle of the night. :(