Pumpkin Massacre..

The skies darkened as the tree cutters came..we knew they were coming but not this soon..they were told to handle the pumpkins with kid gloves...these words were not heeded.

When the tree cutters left (without a word of what they did) is when we saw what they did to the pumpkins.

Our pumpkin vines were torn from the ground, strewn about the yard..a piece here, a piece there..a Pumpkin Massacre in our front yard. Even the green beans that were being guarded by the pumpkins were killed.

The damage done was not caused by the tree branches but were torn from the ground and thrown to the side like garbage.

These huge vines were all growing straight, now they lay mangled, broken and rootless. Ichabod took a gash to the top, Lil' Jack's roots were gone and the leaves near him look like a weed whacker was taken to them.

We harvested Lil's Jack in hopes he'll finish turning orange on the porch.

We have no idea if Ichabod will survive with his head wound and with barely any good vine left with him. And he had such a penitential to grow more..

(We did not hire these tree cutters, the land lord did. We thought they weren't going to come for a while as it looked like it was going to rain. They were told to not touch/move the pumpkins or the vines.)

News from the Pumpkin Patch

We thought our vines were finished with giving us any more pumpkins but to our surprise it gave us another one, so that brings us to two. This second one has been growing rapidly, don't know if it's because of the change of weather or what.

This is our first pumpkin which I've named Lil' Jack. It is already turning orange so this is probably as big as it will get, about the size of an ostrich egg I think. It got munched on by some ants or some other bug on the side.

Named this one Ichabod, still growing pretty good.

It's raining now and starting to cool down...stay in there lil guys!

Surprise

We had a surprise in our patch, a hidden pumpkin.

Death in the pumpkin patch

Just when we thought we had a winner in our patch, a few days later it turned yellow and shriveled off the vine. But we looked around the vine and saw another pumpkin showing up so it might not be over yet.

Pumpkin Spirits

The pumpkin beers and ales are hitting the shelves now. I haven't tried these brands since all I've tried was Post Road Pumpkin Ale, Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale and Jack's Pumpkin Spice Ale. Which all three I never really liked all that much lol. But I heard a lot of good stuff about O'Fallon Pumpkin Beer so I might have try it out soon before it vanishes like it did last year before I even got to see it.

We have pumpkins!

Finally after so long...we have pumpkns. One bigger pumpkin and a tiny one, which I dunno if it will live. I have high hopes for the bigger one though.

Things you can do..

with one jar of pumpkin butter! Silly post I know but I like this stuff and it's pumpkin.

By far the BEST pumpkin butter I've ever had!


Pumpkin pancakes (moist and yummy)




Pumpkin Muffin (moist and even better with pumpkin butter on top)

Pumpkin Progress Pt. 4

As you can see, no pumpkins yet. The vine will take over the yard before I even see one I bet!

Pumpkin Progress Pt. 3

A lot of green growth but no pumpkins yet! The female flowers are no getting pollinated so they're shriveling off the vine :/ Is there a contest for the biggest pumpkin vine? It's going to get to the road soon and start grabbing cars..or dogs that try to pee in the yard.

Pumpkins

The one that got away

Found these photos from last year of a pumpkin that I was going to buy but later changed my mind, why did I have to do that? It was the best one there lol

Return trip to Michaels

Made another trip out to Michael's to see if they put anymore out, in which they did. Wanted a lot of it to lol. We walked out with two items, surprisingly. I want to know when Halloween started breeding with Christmas? Just look at the pumpkin like snowmen, pumpkinmen?