Thread: Has anyone considered starting a pumpkin patch? Has anyone done this?

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I've thought about growing a pumpkin patch and selling them at Halloween. Has anyone done this? If so, any advice? What is your experience? Is it lucrative?

Don't know if any of us has started one as a business, but many of us do grow pumpkins: 2011 Pumpkin Patch Thread

I'm wishing I would have at least grown my own this year. I'm doing a harvest theme with a cemetery and I'm wanting 30-40 pumpkins. I see that alone breaking the bank.

My neighbor across the street grows pumpkins on about an acre of land. It's a lot of work for him and his children but I know he makes money off of it every year. My family helps out occasionally. He also has horses and has wagon rides on Friday and Saturday evening. And I usually put up a huge pumpkin scarecrow for him.

I hope you are thinking about growing a pumpkin patch next year and not this one. It seems a little late in September, but it also depends on where you live I am sure.

I agree with ReaperRick. It is a lot of work, but can definitely pay out. I personally would not make a special trip to a pumpkin patch unless there were plenty of other activities going on. Last year I took my family to a pumpkin patch 3 hours away, and loved it! To us it was worth the drive because it had the following things: a mini scary haunted house, a mini make believe non-scary haunted house theme based for really young children, a pumpkin guillotine, miniature golf, a little pedal tractor that the kids could navigate through a mini maze made out of bales of hay, a larger maze made out of corn stalks and fencing, puppets for the kids to put on puppet shows, and a large screen outdoor movie set up which was playing halloween cartoons. We paid one price to get in, and then everything was free except the actual pumpkins that we picked out. There was also a store selling lots of Autumn/Halloween crafts, munchies, and warm drinks. Talk about a lot of work- but wow! Here is a link about making money with a pumpkin patch you might like: http://www.ehow.com/how_2068266_make...kin-patch.html