My Pumpkin patch is so beautiful, it just keeps getting bigger and covering more ground. As it grows and changes it just gets prettier. I found the Pumpkins, mine are all just little babies and they should be nice and big around October. Which is great, hopefully I'll have enough to decorate, give to Lissa and Casey and still have some left for the neighborhood kids. I am always going to grow Pumpkins, they just make me happy to watch them and they're worth every bit of space they take up.
Friday, July 31, 2009
I found the Pumpkins
My Pumpkin patch is so beautiful, it just keeps getting bigger and covering more ground. As it grows and changes it just gets prettier. I found the Pumpkins, mine are all just little babies and they should be nice and big around October. Which is great, hopefully I'll have enough to decorate, give to Lissa and Casey and still have some left for the neighborhood kids. I am always going to grow Pumpkins, they just make me happy to watch them and they're worth every bit of space they take up.
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Pumpkins are beautiful and what I had the most success with last year. I ended up with about 25 of the suckers. I like the white ones I grew, beautiful carved with a light inside. The white silhouette disappears and all you see is the carving.
Our rototiller bit the dust and by the time it was fixed, it was too late for me to get in the pumpkins. I simply could not hand till any more this season.
I am working on my "not-a- scarecrow", scarecrow, and as soon as it is up, I will share pics of my garden on Crone.
The corn plants have crowned and are over my head.
Awwwww, I can't wait to see your scarecrow. I didn't have a tiller, so I just dug circles about three foot across and all the way around my burn pile. I left enough space to mow until they got big. I didn't know if that would work or not, but, it sure did. It turned out really good. Looks beautiful.
Oh, and those white ones, we call ghost punkins, I couldn't find any seeds for those. I love those.
Disher,
I am enamored with the idea of planting pumpkins after reading your site. Is it too late to plant them, do you think? And did you plant seeds or have an actual plant? I live in TX, not sure where you are, and I know growing conditions are different all over the country. Approximately how much time do you estimate from planting seeds to producing pumpkins?
Thanks a bunch!
OMG! Take a brand new baby one and still on the vine, poke it inside a carboard 1/2 gallon milk carton. Leave it in it. It's supposed to grow into the shape of the carton. It would be a little experiment. I wanna see a square pumpkin!!! Gawd! Lis would love that! "Show & Tell"!!
Rox
Barbara, Texas is diff than here. I don't know, your growing season might be long enough to plant some now. I'd go ahead and try it. You might be able to find pumpkin plants at a nursery, that'd be better than seeds right now.
Rox, but, how would it get light? They sell those clear plastic pumpkin shapers. Have you actually done it with a milk carton?
No I saw it online. I have never grown pumpkins. I think as long as the greenery gets sun then they will grow & be ok. I would look it up. Maybe there are better ideas online. I read to just poke it in, leave it and then cut the carton away when you harvest it. It could be a cool project for Lis!
Rox
PS: Plus the wax/paper carton breathes better than anything plastic so it won't rot inside.
rox
Pat,I am sending you a cool pic I found! You will love this! Check your email in a minute!
Rox
I hope you got it. It will def help with the pumpkins. Looks like it doesnt matter if the things get sun, the greenery has to, however. Thats where the photosynthesis takes place.
I'll try it with one and see how it comes out. :)
I actually have more watermelons, I should try one of those.
Isnt it the coolest thing? So fun for kids. I always wanted to do that for my kids but didn't. So, you do it and not wish you had, like me!
rox
I have a lot of white seeds (they are called Casper - the same as I planted last year). I also have some seeds that produce a scarlet/orange pumpkin whose fruit looks a lot like the pumpkin carriages in faitytales, that I SOOOO wanted to try.
Anywho, I will send you some seeds for next year. I went overboard this year and went on a bit of a seed whoreing mission, so I have lots.
Oh I also have seeds for some odd bluish pumpkin/squash. I don't know the name off hand. I am in the studio and the seeds are up at the house. Will post again later.
But regardless, I will send them on.
Just a thought....assuming that they will still be viable next year, yes? (they freakin' better be!)
One note. The square watermelon came about when the writers great mother opened her fridge one day & a big watermlon rolled out onto the floor & busted! Good idea! They sell them. They do entire fields of them.
Thanks Moon, are there any I have that you want?
I was going to say that you can make your pumpkin grow into shapes but I guess you already found that out..hehehe
How about we all dress up in costume, go to Pat`s house on Oct. 31st, sit in her pumpkin patch and wait for the Great Pumpkin. Sounds good to me.
I will bring the schnapps!
The real fun starts at 11 pm. The great circle of the dead. The real Halloween.
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