Pumpkins from our Garden

This year we decided to plant a few pumpkin seeds and see what happened. We have had good pumpkin crops in the past and some yeasr where none grew at all.  This year we had a total of 8. I used one to make pumpkin pies already and one started to go bad before we picked it.  These are the remaining ones.  We will carve one for Halloween and I will use the others to make pumpkin puree to freeze and use later for more pumpkin pies. 

Pitiful Pumpkin Crop

This year we had a very poor pumpkin crop. I had success with the mini-vine pumpkins, but we had very few of our many pumpkins grow. You can see the comparison from my post last year of our pumpkins then. We will try a different method next year. It still made a nice picture!

Pumpkin Harvest 2008

Some of our Pumpkin Harvest 2008

One of the advantages of owning nine acres is that we can grow a garden as big as we can handle. This year we wanted to try growing pumpkins. These are a few of what we harvested. We loved being able to have friends over for a fall campfire cookout and let everyone pick a pumpkin right from our pumpkin patch to take home for Halloween. Even though it's January, I haven't been spending a lot of time blogging about personal things while I was worried more about marketing our business. I do like being able to put things on here about my other interests. I am going to go back through photos from last year...or even before that, to highlight our family activities and my interests. I hope you enjoy learning about us.