Our boys loved doing the pumpkin patch this year! It was a wonderful family project: we worked on it together, we weeded it together, we pulled the pumpkins together, and we sold the pumpkins together. Overall, it was fun and rewarding. Our little 1/4 acre produced almost 500 pumpkins! We had three different varieties: big, small, and white. 
We sold the pumpkins 2 Saturdays in October. Because we live out of town, I made 2 directional signs to place by intersections, and a large sign to put by our road in front of the patch. 
We lined the driveway with 20 pumpkin-face leaf bags, which we worked together filling. 
We put 2 benches in spots by the patch that had beautiful backgrounds in case anyone wanted to take photos with their pumpkins.
Then we worked on laying out all the pumpkins into the field that we'd previously picked.
During the sale, we sat under a portable pop-up that protects from sunlight and rain with our table and weight scale. We sold the pumpkins for just 15 cents a pound, and if you guessed the right weight within one pound, you got 50 cents off! The biggest pumpkin we had was 55 pounds!!! This is a photo of our second biggest one, at 43 pounds: 
During slow parts of the sale, our family chose our favorite pumpkins, but I informed the boys that they weren't allowed to take them until after the sale was over. Of course, by that time, all of our favorites were sold!!!
We sold the pumpkins 2 Saturdays in October. Because we live out of town, I made 2 directional signs to place by intersections, and a large sign to put by our road in front of the patch. We lined the driveway with 20 pumpkin-face leaf bags, which we worked together filling. We put 2 benches in spots by the patch that had beautiful backgrounds in case anyone wanted to take photos with their pumpkins.
Then we worked on laying out all the pumpkins into the field that we'd previously picked.
During the sale, we sat under a portable pop-up that protects from sunlight and rain with our table and weight scale. We sold the pumpkins for just 15 cents a pound, and if you guessed the right weight within one pound, you got 50 cents off! The biggest pumpkin we had was 55 pounds!!! This is a photo of our second biggest one, at 43 pounds: During slow parts of the sale, our family chose our favorite pumpkins, but I informed the boys that they weren't allowed to take them until after the sale was over. Of course, by that time, all of our favorites were sold!!!
We sold about half our pumpkins, and all the profit went to Jonah and Micah's savings accounts. It was a great way to earn money: they worked all summer long on it and they helped the customers by carrying the pumpkins to their cars in wheelbarrows and wagons. Some of their very favorite customers came on the last day at the end:
We have the perfect spot for a pumpkin patch, and I'm so glad we did it! We are already making plans for next year's patch, with exciting changes that will add to its attractiveness!!! BUT we are glad this year's pumpkin patch has come to an END.
We have the perfect spot for a pumpkin patch, and I'm so glad we did it! We are already making plans for next year's patch, with exciting changes that will add to its attractiveness!!! BUT we are glad this year's pumpkin patch has come to an END.
3 comments:
WOW! I can't believe you guys got so many pumpkins, what an awsome sight. I love the pumpkin kids:) Also I love Josh's pumpkin. It made me laugh!
I can't be the only one who thinks Josh's pumpkins look like him. Great pics full of awesome color- loved the butt!
Ha, I love the pic of Jonah and Micah picking up the pumpkin and taking the wheelbarrow for a ride. It oddly looked like questionable child labor.. j/k! I just thought it looked hilarious. And I agree with Jen.
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