Comments on: The Largest Pumpkin http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/uncategorized/the-largest-pumpkin/ Stories of Raising Responsible Kids Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:14:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Claire http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/uncategorized/the-largest-pumpkin/comment-page-1/#comment-3663 Claire Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:20:26 +0000 http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/?p=560#comment-3663 There is a local farm outside of Charlotte NC that gives school kids giant cabbage plants to grow over the summer. In the fall, they ask that you take a picture of it and send it in. We tried, but alas, my daughter was not able to keep it alive, and after growing it for over a month to about 2 feet across, the neighbors cats ate it! She hopes to try again this summer, indoors this time. There is a local farm outside of Charlotte NC that gives school kids giant cabbage plants to grow over the summer. In the fall, they ask that you take a picture of it and send it in. We tried, but alas, my daughter was not able to keep it alive, and after growing it for over a month to about 2 feet across, the neighbors cats ate it! She hopes to try again this summer, indoors this time.

]]> By: tammy http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/uncategorized/the-largest-pumpkin/comment-page-1/#comment-3657 tammy Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:03:17 +0000 http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/?p=560#comment-3657 I think you may also be longing for our great fall fairs. We went to a few. Goshen Ct and Graniville Ma I love fall and the fairs but as i type we are expecting sleet tomorrow. Yes it is going to be a cold rainy day in t town. enjoy your nice weather I think you may also be longing for our great fall fairs. We went to a few. Goshen Ct
and Graniville Ma I love fall and the fairs but as i type we are expecting sleet tomorrow. Yes it is going to be a cold rainy day in t town. enjoy your nice weather

]]> By: Brigitte http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/uncategorized/the-largest-pumpkin/comment-page-1/#comment-3656 Brigitte Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:55:24 +0000 http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/?p=560#comment-3656 I hear the giant ones are no good for eating. But they're SO fun! A friend of ours grows these and puts the biggest on display at another friend's house on the main road . . and I'VE had the honor of carving it into a giant jack-o-lantern two years in a row. I may try to grow my own next year, even though I already know our yard is too shady, I kill everything, and it is doomed to be an utter failure. Even our giant seeds got moldy last year. But I can't resist trying! :-D I hear the giant ones are no good for eating. But they’re SO fun! A friend of ours grows these and puts the biggest on display at another friend’s house on the main road . . and I’VE had the honor of carving it into a giant jack-o-lantern two years in a row.

I may try to grow my own next year, even though I already know our yard is too shady, I kill everything, and it is doomed to be an utter failure. Even our giant seeds got moldy last year. But I can’t resist trying! :-D

]]> By: Miriam http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/uncategorized/the-largest-pumpkin/comment-page-1/#comment-3654 Miriam Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:08:05 +0000 http://www.handipoints.com/mommypoints/?p=560#comment-3654 How cool. We actually bought "Giant Pumpkin" seeds this year. We grew them indoors at first from the seeds and then planned on planting them in our little 6x6 garden until we read on the package that they have to be planted 15ft apart!! Ugh. We ended up planting them in each corner of our yard. Right now we only have blooms on them and the very beginning of a pumpkin underneath it. Apparently we we did plant them it was about two months later than we are supposed too - so they probably won't be ready in time for Halloween or any type of fall festival. But, we might have some really good pumpkin pie in time for Christmas! :-) How cool. We actually bought “Giant Pumpkin” seeds this year. We grew them indoors at first from the seeds and then planned on planting them in our little 6×6 garden until we read on the package that they have to be planted 15ft apart!! Ugh. We ended up planting them in each corner of our yard. Right now we only have blooms on them and the very beginning of a pumpkin underneath it. Apparently we we did plant them it was about two months later than we are supposed too – so they probably won’t be ready in time for Halloween or any type of fall festival. But, we might have some really good pumpkin pie in time for Christmas! :-)

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