Pumpkin Harvest 2021
Hello to everyone.
Over the last few weekends, we have been hacking away at the spent sunflower hoard overgrowing Xavier's garden.
After hewing down several trashcans full, and the cooler nights bringing the pumpkins' foliage to shrink, we can at last see this year's pumpkin haul.
It's a little disappointing after last year's record-breaking pumpkin harvest.
We do not know what the difference is. We grew two different varieties of pumpkin this year, but we started them in the house like last year.
Perhaps the soil needed more nutrients. It certainly got plenty of water due to Xavier's sprinkler system he and dad built.
It may be that the sunflowers shaded the pumpkins or competed for nutrients.
All in all, Xavier got six pumpkins. The two smaller ones were damaged by squirrels and snails.
The largest one this year weighed in at 36 pounds. The next one (the bumpy one) weighed in at 19.5 pounds. Number three weighed 13 pounds and number four apparently has no weight as the scale does not read it. That may be due to a battery issue with the scale.
Xavier already has two of them sold. He plans to keep the big one for carving and wants to sell the other to someone in the neighborhood.