Pumpkins/squash. Great late season plots

Not sure if or how many do this but I do every year and find them to be a super top-notch late season food plot.
Easy to grow and cheap!
Sugar pie pumpkins and acorn/buttercup squash.
Set them 6-8 feet apart and when they get about the size of a volleyball, go down the rows, cover them with a 5 gallon bucket and spray the weeds with rpundup
They are usually self-sufficient after that.
Most of the deer on my property will be in the plot before dark and bypass corn/beans/and cereal grains to get too them.
Just a thought for those that have never tried it.

 

I threw out some pumpkins last year but they were avoided like the plague. Maybe not fresh enough

 

I grow all these for markets, can't keep deer out of them without fencing! lol for sure make good late season plot! So will late flat dutch cabbage! (All though those take lots more work!)

 

Plot is getting HAMMERED now!!
Most all the squash is gone and they have started on the pumpkins.