Grandma Smith’s Garden

Growing pumpkins in Grandma's garden was a big disappointment this season. The pumpkin harvest consisted of just four big pumpkins and...

Right now Grandma has only 7 pumpkins that are ripening and close to being picked. Even though it is late in the season, some of the...

Most of the pumpkin plants are starting to die off and won't produce any more pumpkins. The Red Warty Thing and Valenciano pumpkins are...

Now there are pumpkins on all but one of the plants. Some are very small and hopefully will grow into bigger pumpkins. This is the time...

The pumpkin plants are still growing as the garden heads into late summer. Not many new pumpkins but most of the pumpkins are growing in...

Almost all of the pumpkin plants now have pumpkins. Some even have two pumpkins. The only plants that do not have pumpkins are Big Moon...

With the hot weather and recent rains, the pumpkins are quickly getting larger. One pumpkin on the Cinderella Carriage is as big as...

The pumpkin plants continue to get big but not many pumpkins yet. Cinderella Carriage and now Jack O' Lantern are the only plants that...

The pumpkins have taken off with all the heat from the past weekend. Some are getting so big it is getting difficult to get all on the...

Even though the pumpkins were covered for the past few weeks, the squash borer insects still swarmed the pumpkins and layed eggs on the...

The pumpkins keep growing. Now the Cinderella Carriage pumpkin is as big as the Walczak pumpkin. Once the pumpkins flower, the covers...

Even with twelve inches of rain last week, the pumpkins are growing well. The area where they are growing was a bit flooded. You can...

After replanting seeds, the Big Moon pumpkin has finally sprouted. Now all of the pumpkins have sprouted. The other pumpkins that have...

Seven of the eight pumpkins planted have sprouted. Jarrahdale (blue) pumpking was the first one to sprout. Big Moon has not sprouted...

The Pumpkin seeds are starting to germimate but the seedlings are yet to pop out of the ground. We have had quite a bit of rain and the...

Grandma's Pumpkin Patch was planted on May 26. Four to five seeds were planted in 8 mounds. Pumpkins are planted on mounds to allow the...