How To: Grow Pumpkins

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Like the one that turned into a fairy-tale coach, homegrown pumpkins can carry both children and adults on new adventures—but in cultivating, cooking, and carving rather than courtship!

Charles Schulz’s Linus believed a pumpkin patch must be sincere, but it actually need only be sunny and well watered to produce great pumpkins. Growing pumpkins will allow your children to raise their own Jack-o’-lanterns, carve their names into small fruits to watch those names expand, decorate for fun fall projects or parties, or even raise a milk-fed pumpkin as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Alonzo did.

Although the how-to-grow pumpkins part isn’t difficult, the humongous vines can hog a large percentage of your garden. So you might want to plant them on the edge of it, to ramble over a not-too-necessary section of lawn instead.

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