Thom and Aaron planted heirloom pumpkin seeds this summer and put the seedlings down in the orchard. In no time at all, we had a large pumpkin patch. The kids loved to go see their pumpkins. This weekend, some of the pumpkins were ready to harvest.
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| On the way to harvest pumpkins |
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| These pumpkins are now sitting outside our front door |
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| The pumpkin patch mid-September |
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| Also mid-September |
It was amazing how quickly the little pumpkin seedlings turned into what you see in the last two photos. This was about 6 pumpkin plants. Altogether we got 11 mature pumpkins. We lost one big one and another small one to some kind of fungus, but the rest avoided it. We'll save some seeds from this year's crop and do it again next year.
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