Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Pumpkin Update! 7/15/17

I've grown my own pumpkins for the last 3 years, and this year's first is almost ready to be cut from the vine! I am growing 3 types this year. 



1. The giant kind you see at the fair. When I see the ribbon-winning pumpkins at the fair, my Halloween season officially starts! None of mine are growing on the vines yet, but it is getting flowers and I see bees out there every day.





 2. Mini pumpkins! These I think are technically not pumpkins, but they look just like them! A mini pumpkin is the first one that is almost ready to be picked! 




(hand in shot for size reference)


There is a 2nd mini pumpkin about the size of a grape tomato! 





3. Regular-sized jack-o-lantern pumpkins! These are the pumpkins I've grown every year! I planted seeds I saved from last year's crop. There are two pumpkins about the size of promotional mini basketballs or a decorative foam skulls from Michael's. They're still as green as watermelons, so they'll be much bigger by the time they're ready to be picked!








I am so excited for Halloween season this year!

Here are all 5 of my Pumpkin Carols (songs I wrote about pumpkins)!








I hope to someday make 7" records of my Pumpkin Digital 7".

Read more about it here!



Pumpkins!


Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Pumpkins 2017 Update!

The pumpkin seeds are starting to sprout!














Soon they will vine everywhere.

EVERYWHERE!

And then flowers.

And then...






And then....







I love this whole damn thing.







Saturday, April 22, 2017

Pumpkins 2017!

I mowed the lawn today.

And then I planted this year's pumpkin seeds!!!






I planted:

* A row of BIG PUMPKIN seeds! I think this is the closest I'll get to growing State Fair-Worthy Pumpkins.

* Two rows of decorative pumpkins. Some of them might be white!

* A row of seeds I saved from last year's pumpkins!


Hopefully some of them will sprout, vine, and produce pumpkins I can use this fall!





If you want one (when they're actually a grown reality), send me an e-mail at sethifusp@gmail.com. We might be able to work something out.