Pretty and tasty!
I wonder if children who only visit the farm at this time of the year think that pumpkins appear out of the ground lined up like this?
Waiting in the wings.
Is it the Great Pumpkin?
While lots of folks were using these giants for photo opportunities, they were also for sale and could be loaded into your vehicle with a forklift. Now, how do you get that out once you're home?
A fraction of the food vendors. Halloween has become so much different from what it was when I was young. Now it's become a month-long carnival and, for many family farms, this has become a cash cow.
A few small glass pumpkins.
Inside the store, Halloween merchandise has taken over.
I love these silly trick-or-treaters.
However, I wasn't tempted to bring any more home.
Note the eyeball decorations on the trees.
I hope you're enjoying the bounty of the season!
I love visiting the pumpkin patch, although it's been a while. I am always astonish at the number of varieties on display. It's a challenge to choose which to take home. I'm impressed that you weren't tempted by the glass pumpkins or trick or treaters... two of those characters accompanied your vase yesterday! I love those little dolls.
ReplyDeleteIt's all so much fun to see but I've already got a lot of stuff to haul out each fall. I get a charge out of taking a variety of pumpkins and gourds to school for the kids to enjoy.
DeleteI'd kill for a squash-filled ravioli right about now. I'm not crazy about pumpkin spice stuff, but pumpkin or butternut squash itself is yummy. I love all those wonderful bumpy, lumpy ones. The first thing I thought of when I saw your pic of the enormous green one was Kris's photo of the squirrel sitting inside hers. I bet it would love to make a meal out of that big one.
ReplyDeleteIsn't squash yummy? Some years Costco has carried squash-filled ravioli so you might be able to find some without resorting to violence:) I see a lot of crows in the pumpkin fields as they're left out after the season but not a lot of squirrel activity. Maybe the squirrels are just too full from eating all my persimmons to schlep out to the farms.
DeleteIt's been ages since I've been to a pumpkin patch, thanks for the take-along!
ReplyDeleteAlways glad to have you along!
DeleteLooking at the ginormous pumpkins, all I could think of was that one of those would be a squirrel's pipe dream. And, since it would almost certainly get dropped and break when removing it from one's car, that'd be an even bigger boon.
ReplyDeleteThey require a pick up truck or a trailer to haul and you're right, without some sort of special equipment to handle them, there'd be literally a ton of squirrel food on one's driveway.
DeleteI love the glass pumpkins.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to see how different glass artists interpret pumpkins. These were all from a single studio while some of the large-scale glass pumpkin patch events feature those of many different artists.
DeleteA drive in the country with a stop at a farm stand to pick out a pumpkin used to be a ritual. Lately, I fear laziness has led to the bins at the everything stores. This was a nice vicarious journey. Thanks!
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It was fun to attend but it's easier to get pumpkins and squash at the everything store than to put them all in a wheelbarrow to be weighed, check out and then wheeled out to the parking area in the back 40.
DeleteHalloween decorations, and pumpkins and gourds and.......all of it are right up there with Christmas decorations for me. I love it all! Thanks for showing this "patch".
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, October through mid January are wonderful for decorations and fun. We need to figure out a way go straight from 12th night to spring, and skip that boring winter bit.
DeleteWow, that is one big operation. I wonder what happens to all the ones they don't sell? To the cannery? Hog feed? You're right about it being different than when we were kids. If we wanted pumpkins, we had to grow them. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing to me how many of these patches there are and how much they pack in. I only showed a part of this carnival that is actually only mid sized in comparison to some others in the area. (Pumpkin sling shots, pumpkin "houses," corn maze, and so much more. Some of the extra pumpkins get tilled back into the soil after they've rotted a bit/left to feed wildlife, some go to zoos, and probably some go to the cannery. During the week, school buses fill the parking lots as field trips to these places are very popular.
DeleteNice collections. This got me in the mood for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Thanks! Some of those pumpkins are huge!
ReplyDeleteWhat an assembly of squashes and pumpkins. There is nothing like this around here. I see all of those pumpkins in the fields around here but not such a variety. This might inspire me to decorate more if I had access to it.
ReplyDeleteI love looking at all the different pumpkins. Even better if it's at an actual farm. I can remember going as a little kid with my preschool class to see cider being made and getting to pick out a pumpkins (we had to be able to carry them by ourselves...family rule).
ReplyDeleteThis year was the first year that I've seen hundreds of pumpkins over your side of the pond", what an experience that was!
ReplyDeleteThose pumpkin farms are fun to visit, especially with kids. That big green one could be a pumpkin chair, though I think there would be a tendency to slide off.
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