We love to decorate the steps of our house in our life on Newark-Granville Road with pumpkins to signal- fall is here. When we're done- we deposit them in various beds for the deer. The first place they started to propagate was the back yard, the vine starting under the pine tree and reaching for the sunlight. Recently it has been the front yard- under the big tree (that fell this year) near the street. The leaf pile nutrients must be good for pumpkins! Sunlight - now that the tree is gone- must be good for pumpkins. We've never had such a full/robust patch and people are noticing and asking.
Today I went into the patch and was able to harvest/pick two bumpy/ugly pumpkins. They may be more gourd than pumpkin- I'm not sure. They're pictured here and on the front porch. Let the fall decorating commence! It feels a bit early but this season has been a strange one- late corn/early pumpkins? We'll see what the Farmers Market has tomorrow. I'll update this post with more information about our front yard patch. In the past we've had a mix of pumpkins and gourds- we'll see what happens this year in our life on Newark-Granville.
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