Pick a good patch of soil, and till the ground:
Plant the Seeds in groups of 3-4 per hill:
Weed it, Water it, Watch it Grow:
Pluck the pumpkins from the vines before the first hard freeze:
And the pumpkins are now ready to sell!The Lil' Munchkins' Patch of Pumpkins is officially opening up tomorrow! We will be open from 11-5 on Saturdays October 16 and 23. We've grown pumpkins for several years now, but this is just the 2nd year that we've grown a large enough patch to open up to the public. It is so much fun growing the pumpkins and then having people of the community come to us and pick their special pumpkin out! It's always exciting for me to watch the whole process!
The life cycle of a pumpkin:
Seeds planted in May
Seeds planted in May
Sprouts Appear
Vines and Flowers grow
Baby Pumpkins begin
Pumpkins grow plump and green
Pumpkins turn orange
Pumpkins gets picked in October
Pumpkins are gutted in preparation for carving.
The seeds are removed and the cycle begins all over again the next spring!!!
4 comments:
Do you grow yours from your own harvested seeds?
Hi. I saw your comment on cjane and it caught my eye because I'm a Tolman too!
It's not the most common last name so it jumped right off the computer screen at me.
We grew pumpkins a couple years too but it just doesn't work quite the same in suburban Chicago.
Sounds like a lot of work to me! But I'm glad it's a (mostly) fun, family activity for y'all.
Wow that is a ton of work! How fun for the kids! I have 1 pumpkin plant and we got like 8 of the tiniest little pumpkins...it'll work for my little kids this year but I really got to get some pointers on getting those big plump pumpkins! My kids won't always want the teeny-tinies...
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