- Aug 20, 2007
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If you don't already, start gardening. I find when I'm getting sick of woodburning it's time to start gardening and when I'm tired of gardening it's about time to start burning.
If you don't already, start gardening. I find when I'm getting sick of woodburning it's time to start gardening and when I'm tired of gardening it's about time to start burning.
Wow that's a lot of pumpkins. Do you do a neighborhood pumpkin patch in October for the local kids?
Yes, well sorta. We usually end up with 50-80 pumpkins and have a huge pumpkin party where all of our friends bring their families and the kids all gut and carve pumpkins in one big shot. No less than 30 pumpkins get carved that day and lots of cider (hard and soft) and beer are consumed. Bonfire for sure. I throw all the guts back into the garden for compost and good times are had by all.
Then we take at least a dozen to the food bank where they are snatched up by folks that are not going to eat them. At least, I highly doubt they know how.
The remaining pumpkins are loaded into the pickup and I take them to work where I let people take what they want. Any leftovers come back and are fed to the neighbor cows. Cows love pumpkins but it really helps them if you wack it in half before feeding.
We are trying out the mason bees this year for better pollenation. Usually we manually pollenate the female flowers to increase yield.
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