Thread: Anyone have a pumpkin patch in their setup?

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I want to do one and need some ideas. Was wondering how to do a fake pumpkin plant. Would love to see some pics of others. Was thinking of using rope and painting it green then making leaves somehow. Any ideas would be helpful! Thanks

I would think you could have good luck following this tutorial for vines.

Creepy Hanging Vines

at my local dollar store they had 3 big boxes of small pumpkins, i bought all 36 of them for my yard! check out your local store.

If you just want 1 plant for the vines...seriously, get a big pot and plant about 5 seeds, set in full sun and water regularly. The vines grow like CRAZY. I had at least 50 feet of vines from my small real patch.

i have used real vines from pumpkins that I grew.
We lived in NM and in the desert squash like plants grew with huge vines! I chopped it off and used the vines with my paper mache pumpkins.
I also took brown paper bags and cut them in strips and dipped them in elemers glue, flour, and water. I twisted them and they dried and were VERY vine looking. I painted them green and used a clear spray paint to add a bit of shine and sort of water proofing. (they would have died in rain tho)
I made large leaves the same way, and used hot glue on the leaves to add veins before I painted them. They looked ok close up, but fabulous in my patch!
I will not post pics b/c we lived in NM and had NO GRASS! Our yard was red rock and my haunt looked sad and pathetic on red rock...no matter how much wood I brought in.

I really don't have any room to plant a real one

Oh and I bought a ton of the fake pumpkins after halloween at Michaels. I am going to get one of the carving kits for them ( a heated knife kit they sell for $20). They look awesome when done with this. I have been collecting all kinds of ugly stencils for them! Got a scarecrow from Spirit 1/2 off too. He will need some work though.