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    Home » Gardening

    It's The Giant Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

    Published by Pam Kessler | 233 words. · About 2 minutes to read this article. - 23 Comments

    We finally harvested our giant pumpkin. Pumpkins to be exact.

    We ended up with two of the big guys.

    Giant pumpkins for fall decor @ houseofhawthornes.com


    Yes, the larger one is setting on the ground. Yes, it was too heavy to lug up onto the porch. Yes, I had to google whether to use setting or sitting in that first sentence.

    Giant pumpkins for fall decor @ houseofhawthornes.com

    If y'all remember from my Giant Pumpkin post in August, these pumpkins just sort of sprouted up by themselves.

    Last year I had discarded a huge pumpkin on to the compost pile. And a couple months ago, I noticed that an oddly large pumpkin had started to grow.

    It took me a while to put two and two together and realize it was probably the spawn from last year's big pumpkin.

    Giant pumpkins for fall decor @ houseofhawthornes.com

    How do you grow a giant sized pumpkin? Heck if I know.

    We literally did NOTHING for these guys.

    After I noticed that they had magically appeared in the compost pile, I just sort of avoided throwing big piles of coffee grounds and eggshells smack dab on top of them. That's it.

    I think I'll look into becoming a Master Gardener soon.

    Giant pumpkins for fall decor @ houseofhawthornes.com

    Now next year, I will probably get all high tech on them if they grow in the pile again and start doing all sorts of hokey things to get them to grow even bigger.

    But I'm happy with how large these ones turned out with no interference from me.

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    1. Mitchypoo

      October 27, 2013 at 5:55 pm

      For large pumpkins, they are really uniform and pretty! Be sure to get the seeds from these two and throw on your compost pile!

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    2. Mitchypoo

      October 27, 2013 at 5:56 pm

      For large pumpkins, they are really uniform and pretty! Be sure to get the seeds from these two and throw on your compost pile!

      Reply
    3. Ida

      October 28, 2013 at 1:24 pm

      Wow you got some good sized pumpkins there. Way to go.

      Reply
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