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The Pumpkin Patch

gazelle77 — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 03:02:43 GMT

The hosts keep taking about wearing this or that to go to the pumpkin patch....yea,...right....

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deepwaterdotter — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 03:04:47 GMT

Must be the all-important pumpkin-picking season again.

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ical — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:03:55 GMT

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cater — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:04:13 GMT

We are all about fall and pumpkins and decorating for Halloween to the extreme everyone tells us all the time. My sister who has small grandchildren has always taken the kids to go pick out their favorite pumpkins at the local farm that has every thing from veggies to apples and tons of pumpkins. She has this great fall outfit that she wears just to take the little ones there she even has pumpkin earrings. We all crack up when she comes back with happy kids and tons of pumpkins and her outfit just for the pumpkin gathering.

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september — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:11:14 GMT

We often grow our own, so don't wear anything special to go out in the back yard to pick them.

We don't have our own crop this year, and I'll just pick them up during my routine shopping trips...all the markets sell them.

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cater — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:20:47 GMT

I used to grow great pumpkins in our garden in fact one year my nephew and his friend at work sent for special pumpkin seeds and they got a wonderful crop of different pumpkins in our field. They had the best time after work coming here with their little children watching those pumpkins grow feeding them miracle grow. When it came time to harvest them they let the kids gather them up it was a fun time for the kids and the parents. When I grew them I would just pick them and keep what I wanted and put the rest by my drive way and any one who wanted a few could just stop and take what they wanted. Now we have a ground hog and deer that will not let them grow so it is use less to even try and plant them in fact the deer will not leave any thing alone in the garden so it has turned out to be a waste of time and money to even try to plant a garden. But I still love to see pumpkins and gourds growing.

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ical — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:21:53 GMT

What kind of seeds to you use? Do you use heirloom non-gmo seeds?

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VanSleepy — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:26:42 GMT

Oh, come on, gazelle. You've never been to the pumpkin patch in your special pumpkin-pickin' sweater?

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cater — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 05:06:49 GMT

My nephew and the guy he worked with did some real research and I don't know what all different seeds they planted. I do remember they told me I would fall off my chair if they told me how much money they spent on those seeds. They did get good results, me I just went to the local garden shop that for the last 70 years have sold fresh seeds for any thing you want to grow and I told them I wanted a variety of pumpkin seeds and I planted them. Also planted Indian corn seeds, they really turned out to be beautiful there were so many different colors and I also gave away a lot of them and everyone was decorating their homes with them. I love to decorate for fall on another thread I said that I made a big wreath out of Indian corn and it tuned out to be beautiful to look at. Well the squirrels decided that its beauty was one thing but the taste of the corn was even better and they ate all my corn off and I was left with empty cobs on my wreath.

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jackthebear — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:54:20 GMT

don't you need a special outfit to pick pumpkins?

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Witchy Woman — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:16:42 GMT

I love anything to do with pumpkins and autumn, and visiting a real pumpkin patch is glorious.

But what I REALLY need is an outfit to wear when I drag the recycle bin out to the street.

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Buck-i-Nana — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:48:01 GMT

Going to pick our own pumpkins has been a tradition in my family since my children were small. Now with 8 grandchildren, we caravan to the pumpkin fields and have a grand day of fall fun.

Having comfy casual attire is a necessity for fall outdoor fun, so I don't see where the problem is.

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misspammie — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:10:26 GMT

On 9/22/2014 Buck-i-Nana said:
Going to pick our own pumpkins has been a tradition in my family since my children were small. Now with 8 grandchildren, we caravan to the pumpkin fields and have a grand day of fall fun.

Having comfy casual attire is a necessity for fall outdoor fun, so I don't see where the problem is.

good for you! really, I mean this

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chickenbutt — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:57:22 GMT

The only 'pumpkin patch' I've even heard of is the Roloff Farm up in Oregon. That's only because I have watched their show all these years. Needless to say, I've not been to one. Sounds like a fun thing, I suppose.

But the way they use it on QVC it's just so freaking funny! It is probably pretty difficult to come up with new things to say, in an industry where you have to be talking ALL the time so I just take it for what it is - silly, funny sometimes, and a selling ploy (I guess).

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deepwaterdotter — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:08:38 GMT

On 9/22/2014 Witchy Woman said:
I love anything to do with pumpkins and autumn, and visiting a real pumpkin patch is glorious.

But what I REALLY need is an outfit to wear when I drag the recycle bin out to the street.

Maybe a little number by Susan Graver?

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Shorty2U — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:12:08 GMT

Q's remarks are just sales pitches.

About pumpkin patches, I used to go to them when my kids were young. It was fun. Now I buy pumpkins and mums from the Mennonite stand nearby.

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FlyersGirl — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:35:43 GMT

Gotta love picking pumpkins. Pig races too. This is just one of the many types of fall events here in South East PA. We are not that far from QVC. This is pretty typical of events around this area.

My apologies...tried to get this smaller and it just was not working for me.

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chickenbutt — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:37:10 GMT

You might want to scale that picture down. Thanks!

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FlyersGirl — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:38:15 GMT

Chickenbutt, please see my edit...tried but not working

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shoptilyadropagain — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:00:16 GMT

I'm embarrassed to admit.....I've never been to a ""Pumpkin Patch""! I usually buy mine from Meijer (and I just go in jeans and a normal top.....nothing fancy).