Growing winter and summer squash, and pumpkins: Pumpkins and zucchini you can either direct seed or use plants. Winter squash you should use plants. I use plants for all three because of critter (birds, gophers, etc.) pressure and because of how short Manitoba’s growing season is. Plants need full sun and kept evenly watered. Plants…
Tag: 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…
Farmers’ Markets
Today is my favorite market: the Alleyways Market in Winnipeg. In general I love farmers’ markets and selling my veggies. I love chit chatting with people and offering them fresh local delicious vegges. The only downside is all the traveling and time required to get ready. That’s why I’m trying to grow only a few…
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…
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!
Useful Websites
Herbs everything you want to know about how to use and grow herbs. Gardening how to take care of veggies and herbs. Recipes I can cook, but I prefer not to cook. If I’m looking for recipes Mennonite Girls Can Cook is my go to site to find recipes. Pumpkins my go to site for pumpkin facts and the…
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 