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Here are most of the pumpkins from our yard, there are a handful that didn't fit on the stump!
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  1. Stephanie DOctober 20, 2008 at 5:02 PM

    Wow, what a harvest! I'm hoping to have a lasagna garden next year with a few pumpkins! I'm going to save the seeds from the "ugly" pumpkins I bought in hopes they'll breed more uglies for Halloween!

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  2. quiltmom annaOctober 20, 2008 at 11:10 PM

    great pumpkins Karen,

    Will you use them to decorate for
    Halloween? Do you cook them or do just eat the seeds?
    I bet your kids love them and have some great jack olantern faces planned for them.
    We have an area that is North of us that grow huge pumpkins - 6 to 8 hundred pound ones- they need tractors to load and move them.
    check out this article if you would like to see how big they actually can grow..
    http://www.ama.ab.ca/cps/rde/xchg/ama/web/print-WWarticle-Sept06-AltaBound-6255.htm
    Hope you are having fun with your pumpkins.
    Regards,
    Anna

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  3. SaraOctober 21, 2008 at 5:07 PM

    Great harvest! We only got about a dozen small ones and 1 large one! Much better than ours turned out!

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  4. MARCIEOctober 26, 2008 at 9:13 AM

    Don't you just love being able to reap a harvest from your own yard?! Great photo and cute pumpkins! Hope you are all doing well!

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