Our First Pumpkin Patch

[Kahlua Kid]

As if we don't have enough to do... but this is going to be fun to see how it turns out.

On July 1st (a month late - oh well!) we planted Valenciano (white), Lumina (white), Atlantic Giants (Get up to 1,000 pounds), Connecticut Field (up to 50 pounds), Jack-O-Lantern (up to 50 pounds), Mini Sugar (used for pumpkin pies), Kekei (green striped), Batman (half-orange, half-black), Gray (from Australia), Big Max (Up to 100 pounds), and other types of pumpkins and we'll just see how they turn out come October!

[Kahlua Kid]

Our first sprouts are here... will post later when there's a bit more to talk about! hee hee!

[Kahlua Kid]

Just glad to see the seeds I bought off Ebay from various sellers are actually sprouting! Now time will tell if they sold me what they told me I was getting!

[tocools]

They look great keep up the good work http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/applause.gif

[Ironhorse]

Originally posted by Kahlua Kid:
Just glad to see the seeds I bought off Ebay from various sellers are actually sprouting! Now time will tell if they sold me what they told me I was getting!

So what are you going to do with all those pumpkins when they grow?????? You gonna start a mountain pumpkin patch for the kiddies? http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/laugh.gif

Seriously, when I was little, my grandpa grew melons, pumpkins and such. He always used to tell me that when the fruit starts appearing, pinch off the smallest one so that the "strength" will go to the others and that they'll grow bigger and better. Never had a garden, but he had whopper veggies, so something he did must have worked.

[BGW]

Wow! I must give you http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/applause.gif for this labor of love! I have been blessed several times over this year.

This sprouted up in my compost bin! It already has teenie tiny pumpkins rapidly growing. It is sharing its space with a volunteer tomoto plant!

[BGW]

I bought several of the small white pumpkins at the pumpkin patch at the Elementary school in Ahwahnee last fall. After Thanksgiving, I set them outside in a couple planters and left them to rot http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/laugh.gif

[BGW]

And, this one is still a mystery!! http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/rofl5.gif It may be a pumpkin, it might be a squash; whatever the case it was not influenced by me to sprout in this location!!http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/xxrotflmao.gif

[Patagoniamaniac]

keep us posted with the growth. WE have our garden going too!

[Lacey]

How cool! What a great little pumpkin patch you are going to have. Is that where the pool used to be?

You guys must have green thumbs. I try tomato plants every year and every year I manage to get a few green tomatoes just about the time winter sets in.

[Kahlua Kid]

Yes, the pool is gone so what else to do with the space until we decide how we are going to finally landscape the front... a pumpkin patch!

Cool BGirls... It will be fun to see your pumpkins progress too! Yours will come up first since yours started ahead of us.

I like the idea of just leaving one to rot down so it reseeds naturally - cool!

If we get a "Bumper" crop, we will open up to the public (but this isn't really that big a patch.) If not, then just our good OF Friends and fam!

[BGW]

http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/rofl5.gif It looks like I was tricked by my pumpkin patch! http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/rofl5.gif

[Kahlua Kid]

What ya got Bgirls? Squash?

Here is our pumpkin patch update (I was just out taken pics before you posted!)

[Kahlua Kid]

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[Kahlua Kid]

Update - we have blooms and real limbs reaching out. Now they are starting to look like pumpkin plants! Now... hopefully they will produce and ripen in time for Halloween!

[Kahlua Kid]

I have to keep washing the aphids off - they love pumpkin leaves apparently - and those darn ants keep farming/bringing them back! Ugg!!!

[beautiful_mess38]

Way to cool. It will be such a pretty pic when you can actually see the pumpkins.

[TOT]

My pumpkins are starting to turn orange http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/happy.gif

[Yosemite_Wolf]

perhaps we could use the pumpkins to accent our photography displays ????

[BGW]

Tee Hee...already harvasted and ate my 'mock pumpkins' http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/rofl5.gif Turned out to be acorn squash!!!

[SheilaMae]

****BUMP****
The post re: the Wasuma Punkin' Patch begs the question...how are your punkins doing, KK and Newcomer????

[Kahlua Kid]

(SheilaMae - will our DramaQueen be coming over to help us for Sierra Art Trails next weekend? Give us a call!)

Well - we have baby pumpkins right now - I admit, we planted too late I think - but we still have 3 weeks for them to grow up!

One is probably about the size of a grapefruit. The others, more like large plums.

But -we have 10 - count em, 10 pumpkins a'coming.

The aphids were quite a fight for a while there and took out some of them.

I'd post pix, but for some reason the site isn't letting me post pix anymore - something about no free disk space -

hmmm... Sandman must be too distracted right now to make that room! http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/wink3.gif

[monkey]

Just wait... the first year they "sleep", the 2nd year they "creep" and the 3rd year they "leap". That's when you'll see lotsa punkins. http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/8/8_1_207.gifhttp://plugin.smileycentral.com/http%253A%252F%252Fimgfarm%252Ecom%252Fimages%252F nocache%252Ftr%252Ffw%252Fsmiley%252Fsocial%252Egi f%253Fi%253D8%252F8_1_207/image.gif (http://plugin.smileycentral.com/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.smileycentral.com%252F%253F partner%253DZSzeb008%255FZNxmk278CVUS%2526i%253D8% 252F8%255F1%255F207%2526feat%253Dprof/page.html)

[Kahlua Kid]

first year they "sleep", the 2nd year they "creep" and the 3rd year they "leap". That's when you'll see lotsa punkins

Really? So, these aren't "annuals"? I thought the vines did their thing and then died off?

[monkey]

Not real sure, but that's what I've heard.

[Kahlua Kid]

Well, here we are and Halloween is only 3 days away... And do we have pumpkins!

Look at how they took off overnight! This one was claimed by my Grandpa!

[monkey]

Wow! That's amazing!!! You sure have a green thumb. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/laugh.gif

[beautiful_mess38]

http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/shocked.gifmg: http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/rofl5.gif

[Chem101]

It's OK KK... You can tell your grandpa they will be bigger next year. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/wink3.gif

[Kahlua Kid]

Well, at some point I had to come clean!

Here is our harvest - well... they're cute! (We really did plant too late - the cold is starting to take out the vines and leave us with our little pumpkins!)

http://www.sierravistastudios.com/pumpkinsinbasket.jpg

[Shameless]

ahhhh thier precious.