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I've been doing the North Fork pumpkin patch farmstand thing for a good 20 years now. You pulled in, stomped out into the field with the vines still all over, and you picked your pumpkin. I was out there yesterday for that purpose and couldn't believe how many of them just had pumpkins laying on the lawn. No dirt, no vines, no fun. Even our beloved Krupskis went that way, maybe it's just the foggyness of childhood memories but does anyone else notice this?
I've noticed that too. I remember going to pumpkin patches as a kid in the late 70's and it was always the traditional field with the pumpkins still on the vines.
On a recent outing to some farmstands, I only saw makeshift pumpkin patches. No real ones.
You make no money growing pumpkins, you make money selling them. Im sure most of these farmstands could not make enough money growing and just selling their own crop.
Then why can Harbes who had an entire field full of pumpkins still on the vine have no problems growing and selling and places like Krupskis who seem to have quite a bit of land buy rather than grow? From now on I'll going to Harbes.
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I only had 4 pumpkins this year in my patch. Would've been 6, but squirrels got one, and my kid knocked one off the vine when it was only about the size of a baseball.
4 is plenty though for my front porch. Next year I'm gonna expand the growing area.
I only had 4 pumpkins this year in my patch. Would've been 6, but squirrels got one, and my kid knocked one off the vine when it was only about the size of a baseball.
4 is plenty though for my front porch. Next year I'm gonna expand the growing area.
They run like crazy, I only got two keepers from mine.
I travel Sound Ave to work every morning. I see (and sometimes get stuck behind) all the tractors pulling loads of pumpkins to the farms. Yes, when my kids were young, you picked them off the vines. Now, they are trucked in from Jersey, I am told and they place them in fields for "picking". I guess the real city people don't know the difference. I do know and so I just bought my pumpkins at BJ's. Cheaper, great selection, fresh. The farms are gouging people on prices on everything this year.
Then why can Harbes who had an entire field full of pumpkins still on the vine have no problems growing and selling and places like Krupskis who seem to have quite a bit of land buy rather than grow? From now on I'll going to Harbes.
I don't usually go out to Harbes for pumpkins but I do go out there for their super sweet corn. Pumpkins take a lot of room to grow. Lots of it as well as potato and corn fields are being given up for exotic fruits and vegetables and grape vineyards. The stuff you're looking for is still being grown in Ridge, Calverton and Middle Island.
We can't even leave our house on weekends this time of year. My neighborhood is wedged between Rt 25 & Rt 25A just at the base of Sound Ave.
All of the Nass-holes & Cit-iots completely forget how to drive & somehow they think its ok for their toddlers to wander out on to Rt 25 while they put the pumpkins in the back of the navigator.
Its crazy.
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