Posts Tagged ‘Growing Pumpkins’

Yesterday was VAL-entine’s Day and my Daddy surprised Mommy with huge chocolate strawberries that were delivered to her yesterday afternoon – WOW, what a surprise for Mommy!   Of course, I have to investigate every box that enters our house, so I did some major sniffing when this one arrived.  Mommy opened up the box and [...]

It is official…..Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning in Pennsylvania.  This was the 126th celebration of Ground Hog Day.  Sorry everyone, Phil is never wrong, so we will have six more weeks of winter!  You’ll have to put your Spring fever on the back shelf for a little while longer.  Don’t put your snow [...]

We know what you’re thinking… it’s too early to grow pumpkins now, but we could not resist.  We love the Seasons, and we love everything to do with Halloween, including pumpkins!  Last year was our first attempt at growing pumpkins in our backyard, and if it were not for the deers in our neighborhood, we [...]

Trying to grow pumpkins was a great adventure for us this year, with a few setbacks from some critters & the weather.   We started our plantings back in May, but all the rain stunted the growth and we had to replant.  We ran into chipmunks who ate our little seedlings that were starting to grow, [...]

Never in a million years would I think that I would wake up today and have my day start off this way.  I walked outside this morning with Mommy for my morning pee break only to find that last night, the deer munched away 1/3 of Daddy’s pumpkin vines.  The funny thing is, is that [...]

5-27-11 It all starts from this In the whole fun of Halloween, Daddy had a dream and wanted to try growing some pumpkins for us for Halloween.  We started our first planting back in May, but the downpours we had and the water that saturated quite everything, we had a slow start, as our first [...]

Gardening is great!  It seems to always be a lot of work getting the yard ready for Summer, but for those of us who enjoy it, it’s not work at all, but pure joy!  For example, for the first time ever, Mommy finally got two baby cherry tomato plants that Daddy picked out for her, [...]