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Mad About Pumpkins

We’re mad about pumpkins. We grow them, dress them up and carve them for Halloween. Without further ado, some of my favorite pumpkins from the past decade.

Alys Milner 32 mins · Edited · Our first backyard pumpkin September, 2005
Ad hoc pumpkin patch September, 2005
This pumpkin grew from squirrel feed. Dark orange inside with a pale skin.
Amy Farrah Fowler
What all the well dressed pumpkins are wearing this fall.
My 2014 Doppelganger
Spooky pumpkins
The roaring twenties pumpkin
Ahoy Matey Pumpkin
Creepy Crawly Pumpkin
Elvis is alive and well
Signature Pumpkin
Snail Hotel: Mollusks Welcome
haunted pumpkin
Under the sea pumpkin
Ratatouille pumpkin
Last year’s late-season crop
B is for Boomdee
Virginia Tech Pumpkin
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown My lone, volunteer pumpkin this year, 2015
Ready for holidays pumpkin
Delicious pumpkin
Our largest pumpkins ever (46 – 64 pounds)
Photo Bombing Pumpkins When M was 12
Dracula pumpkin
Oh yes, quite delicious thank you.
Crowned Kitty Pumpkin
The Scholarly Pumpkin
Yes, it’s me again.
Bewitched Pumpkin
The Sailor Pumpkin, Mike’s True Passion
I’m a Mac Pumpkin
Snail Hotel: Checking in
A Stack ‘O Pumpkins (M’s treasures)
Resident Carver Extraordinaire Michael Francini.
Collection of Pumpkins
An enterprising snail created a private entrance
Mike’s Carving Wonder
Lindy investigates
Flower Vase Pumpkin
We grew this crowd one year
Rock, Paper, Scissors Pumpkin
Smooch!
Mike’s collection of carvings
Deadly Diva
Pretty Kitty
Our “Haunted Yard” one year
Hanging out with Laura at Bob’s Farm
When pumpkins were still bigger than he was
I grew this gorgeous green pumpkin from seed. One of my favorites. They’re native to Australia.
Welcome Pumpkin This is a Candy Cane Pumpkin, also grown from seed
Lifting Pumpkins is great exercise
You win some, you lose a lot. The joy of gardening
A joyous crop, pre-drought and pre-squash bug infestation.
Admired by many, carved by Michael.
Glowing Pumpkins
My Year of Trash costume hat pumpkin
Velvet pumpkins
When a whole pumpkin just won’t do.
Mike builds a bonfire
The woeful tale of Frank and Shelley
Gardening Nirvana Pumpkin