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Nothing yet. I'll till here in a couple of weeks as I don't plan on seeding until about the second week of June this year. Weather has been crazy. We still had snow coming down just a couple days ago. Didn't stick, but we're still having cold temps.

 

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I have yet to till the ground! It's been raining just about every day. I'm hoping to at least get it done this week. Still not planting until 2nd week of June though.

 

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Plan on finally tilling up the patch tomorrow. It's funny, 3 of my neighbors are all doing their gardens today. The weather has put so many behind this year.

 

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Well, the seeds are in. Finally.

A nice surprise from our compost bin though, a rather large pumpkin plant has already started in there. lol I'll have to get a picture.

 

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The "compost" vine is growing at a ridiculous rate. lol Checked the patch and I have 5 sprouts already.

 

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Mine are all doing great. I just can't get off my lazy butt to take pics and upload them.

LOL That's me. I just don't feel like uploading the pics.


Still going strong though, every day they are growing. Hopefully it will be another successful year.

 

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So far behind this year as far as sharing. I did finally get the patch planted a couple weeks back. Weather has been a pain. A lot of rain and humidity. Between that and work it's been a bit of a chore keeping up with weeding. The patch itself is doing good. I also have a huge volunteer from the compost bin.

 

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I had one pumpkin about double the size of a softball from my volunteer vine but some critter got hold of it. There are still 2 more from the same vine though. Hopefully they can survive.

 

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I have not been keeping up with updates like I always do this year. Things have just been so hectic lately. Here's today:

That big mess in the background is what came out of the compost bin this year. That's where the 2 pumpkins are from.

 

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::sigh:: My 2 bowling ball sized pumpkins have been half eaten. I'm thinking raccoon. Never really had to worry about critters before. Maybe a squirrel getting to one but no big deal. These 2 looked like they were eaten by Bigfoot!

 

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There are not enough angry pumpkin faces in the world to express my anger right now. Someone ripped one of my fully ripened pumpkins off the vine. To make matters worse, they didn't leave it, or even take it to keep it...they dropped it on the ground and broke it. I hoped it was just an animal, but there were no teeth marks, it happened during the middle of the day and, just before I found it on the ground, I heard one of the neighborhood kids in my yard being very loud and making trouble. I wish I had gone to check on her a minute earlier...maybe I could've saved my pumpkin... I would like to hope it wasn't her...and give her the benefit of the doubt...but she is just a brat of a little girl and she was right there at the exact time...sigh. Regardless if it was her, one of the other kids or an animal, I am now terrified for the rest of my pumpkins... I just hope it was a one time thing. Time for me to have pumpkin anxiety the rest of the season...

That stinks! So sorry. I know all too well the horrors of having a neighbor child wreaking havoc on pumpkins.

 

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Yeah, Im not expecting big things this year. Between critters, squash bugs, and now mold, I'll be lucky to get 3 small ones. I'm fighting, but I'm losing. lol

I'm a bit upset to say the least, especially after such a successful crop last year. 15 pumpkins.

 

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Well, I have 3 pumpkins that are actually untouched by the bugs, critters, and mildew. I covered each of them with a milk crate for protection and it seems to be working as far as them getting eaten up. Hopefully my patch won't be a total loss this year.

 

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...and another one bites the dust.

Looks like I'll have 3 total pumpkins from the patch this year. Hopefully.

 

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I was able to harvest a total of 5 pumpkins. One has started to rot. LOL This has been a terrible year for me.

 

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Well...are the four you have left then, at least, nice pumpkins??

One of them is, but he's a bit lop sided. The others, well, I guess they'll be decorative pieces. lol

 

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Well, for the few of you that got some pumpkins and gourds to grow, I hope to see pictures!
For everyone else who had bad luck this season with their patches...I hope next year will be better for everyone!!
This was just an awful year for pumpkins, it seems, for many. I wonder how the large pumpkin patches around here did? I guess I will find out at the end of the month when we start going to them to buy our larger pumpkins...if they had a poor season, as well, then there won't be a good selection and/or prices will be sky high...

I was looking at the 4 "survivors" from this years battle. They will be good decoration. We always go to the pumpkin patch anyway, so I'll pick up about 4 - 5 big ones for carving there.