Category: Pumpkins
A pumpkin is not just a pumpkin. They’re are orange ones, white ones, tall ones, round ones, warty ones, and hundreds of other kinds.
The Pumpkin Patch
It’s almost fall. I love fall, though I do want summer to hang on for another 5 weeks. I need the heat to get the pumpkins ripe and the vegetables were super late this year. This year I’m participating in Open Farm Day Manitoba. I’m opening up my pumpkin patch to the public on Sept….
Beautiful pumpkins
I grow around 60 varieties of pumpkins and winter squash. Why so many kinds? So I can have blue, pink, white, tan, green, flat, upright, round, big, small, etc. I love having pumpkins of all shapes and colors. One kind of pumpkin I grow is pie pumpkins. They have less water (a dryer flesh), less…
Pumpkin vs Winter Squash
I sometimes get asked what’s the difference between a pumpkin and a winter squash? I really don’t have a answer to that question. They both belong to the Cucurbita family and than they branch off into other families. All pumpkins are winter squash: mature fruit of certain species in the genus Cucurbita. Subspecies include pepo, moschata, argyrosperma, and…
Gourds
My favorite question is: can you eat gourds? I’m sure you could, but you’re teeth might not appreciate biting into them. Gourds are used as decorations for Thanksgiving, fall, and Halloween decorating. I love growing gourds, as you never know what you’re going to get. When picking the gourds it’s like going on an Easter…
How to Plant a Pumpkin Patch.
Step 1: Plant the pumpkin, Indian corn, and squash seeds. Step 2: Water, water, and watch them grow. Step 3: Till the pumpkin patch. Step 4: Lay down the biodegradable plastic mulch Step 5: Plant the pumpkins. Step 6: Water, water, and water. Step 7: Till, water, and weed. Step 8: Harvest!
Pumpkinist Lora
Pumpkinist? Is that even a word and what does it mean? It’s a made up word to describe what I do. “Ist” means: suffix (forming nouns) a person who performs a certain action or is concerned with something specified motorist ; soloist (forming nouns) a person who practises in a specific field physicist ; typist (forming nouns and adjectives) a person who advocates a particular doctrine, system, etc, or relating to such a person or the doctrine advocated socialist (forming nouns and adjectives) a person characterized by a specified trait, tendency, etc, or relating to such a person or trait purist Source I could call myself a gardener or a farmer, but I have issues with those words. A gardener is: noun a person who is employed to cultivate or care for a garden, lawn, etc. any person who gardens or…
Pumpkinist Lora 