slo’s FRIDAY 10/10 poll - Pumpkin Picking 🎃

[slo]

It’s that time of year when many of us go pumpkin picking somewhere. It doesn’t have to be at a farm or pumpkin patch, it can be at your local grocery store. Where do you go picking pumpkins? Let’s find out………….


Are you buying pumpkins this year?
If yes…from where?
(multiple choice))

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For Me……This is the first time in 30 years that I have not bought any pumpkins. I feel kinda guilty, like I’m quitting on autumn and Halloween. The inside of my house is decorated though with lots of fake pumpkins. My house is at the end of a dead end street so no one sees our front porch besides us, so I decided to save the money and not decorate with anything.

 

[Wood Nymph]

We stopped buying pumpkins when the grandkids no longer wanted to carve them. But we almost always bought them at an apple orchard. We would make the annual trip to our favorite apple orchard for apples, apple cider and freshly made apple donuts. We would pick up our pumpkins there.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I buy about 10 various kinds and sizes every year to decorate outside I used to get them at a local nursery but sadly they’re closed so now I get them at Home Depot & Walmart

 

[Kitty 34]

We would get our pumpkins from a neighboring farmer. The grands loved picking them out and then carving them.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I haven't bought mine yet this year, but will either get one Monday when (if...weather ) we go apple-picking or at the grocery store.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I pick pumpkins every year. I grow them and my dad grows them. This year I had no luck (animals ate my pumpkins) but my dad had a good haul!

Pumpkins growing in his yard


Leaving his house

Fall display. My dad grew everything but the mums

 

[easyas123]

We also grow our own, plus I bought a particularly interesting looking one at Lowes the other day.

 

[ronandannette]

We don’t do Halloween but I always get a pumpkin or two (or more) for my autumn decor. I “pick” them out of a huge bin at the grocery store. As Monday is Thanksgiving and we’re hosting a feast, I’m a little behind in getting things set up. I’ll be buying the pumpkins, fall mums and turkey all in the same trip on Saturday.

 

[Disneylover99]

I get my pumpkins from the grocery store whenever they go on sale.
My daughter still likes to carve them and roast the seeds.

 

[NAB]

We get them at the grocery store too. Cheapest and they look good.

Haven’t craved in a long time, wouldn’t buy one at all but husband gets 2 for the seeds to roast.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Due to our heat, you're not finding much in the way of true pumpkin patch farms for picking. In fact, it's really too hot to buy real pumpkins until Halloween week. Things rot fast when it's 90+ outside. Most people here either get them from supermarkets or a number of churches will put up cute little pumpkin patches. We have a large church just down the street from our house that's kicking off this weekend.

 

[Micca]

Bought one at Costco yesterday. It's a nice big one (to be used for decor) for $6

 

[evilmommie]

I buy from local farmers, the grocery store and Trader Joe’s. I usually have a lot more in the front but I kept it simple this year, with my witchy dog as the star of my Halloween garden.

 

[Dan Murphy]

No pumpkins yet so far this year. Marie will pick up a few small/medium size ones at the grocery store, for decoration and for the animals that hang around the area who like to eat them. When the kids were young, we used to go to some of the local farms that specialize in Fall/Halloween.

A side note, Illinois is the country's biggest producer of pumpkins by far.

 

[amcnj]

This year happens to be a yard picking one. This spring I was gifted with a dozen pumpkin seedlings that sprouted up in someone’s compost pile. A nice mix of sizes resulted, including some quite large ones. I gave away three so far, and still have to pick the rest.

Past years were at a farm pumpkin patch, farm stand, or store. In recent years the stores (especially warehouse type ones) have been the main source for me.

 

[tvguy]

We'll get one in a couple of weeks, the Sunday before Halloween, and it won't get carved until Halloween. They rot too quickly otherwise. Last year I was amazed at how many rotten pumpkins they were throwing out at the grocery store Halloween week. Always get ours at either the grocery store or Walmart. Decades ago we used to turn our Jack O Lantern into a pumpkin pie after Halloween, but they aren't the best variety of pumpkin for pie.

 

[clappyclaps]

Don't do pumpkins or pumpkin picking. I love carved pumpkins and used to love picking different designs to carve out, but the mess drove me too crazy!

 

[georgina]

Haven't bought any pumpkins since we moved to our townhome community in 2021.

In the years before that I would get them at the local grocery store.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

I thought it was just me having the issue with the website refreshing @slo and using my iPhone was the cause. Hopefully, it’s fixed soon.

Back to the topic at hand, we buy a few mini pumpkins at the grocery store and display them inside. The squirrels eat any pumpkins we put outside, so we stopped buying them for outdoor decorations.

 

[rndmr2]

This is the first year in many years that I have actually bought pumpkins. I bought 6 of them various sizes and colors at a farm Stand and I have them out in front of the house. I haven't carved a pumpkin since about 1999 but I just have them in a display with a few cobs of colored Indian corn (the animals have eaten all the kernels, LOL)