Pumpkin Harvest - Day 3.

Day 3 was spent cutting all remaining 18 pumpkins from the patch... My Mom came over to help so Hubby could continue to work on latest un-named project. (Will blog on that soon) Once the pumpkins were removed, we broke down the plot saver fencing addition and got the patch back to its original perimeters. (And so we could re-claim our driveway!) We also had to pull all the long running vines up where they had run out of the patch and throw them back into patch for Hubby to till up later. 18 pumpkins pulled... 18 to wash, weigh, number and log. Long evening working until after dark!

It's like a boot camp workout farm style hauling these 25+ pounders out of the patch!

First bucket load to the barn!

Getting load number two ready to haul back to the barn!

Ready to start washing and weighing!

Setting part of them up for folks to come by and select their pumpkin later in the week. Side note: All pumpkins were reserved for purchase within two days after I posted a photo of the first five harvested on facebook!

Pumpkin Harvest - Day 2.

Day 2 was extra special because we harvested the coveted "Big Boy" pumpkin... the biggest one in the patch! This the pumpkin that I have shown numerous times in the pumpkin patch countdown. We took it to the feed and seed store in town and had it weighed on the certified scales... 69.5 lbs!!!!!

Total pulled on Day 2: 12 ranging from 20.4 lbs up to 69.5 lbs!

Headed to Kimbroughs feed store in town to weigh big boy! Watch out: precious cargo!

Yep, they were blown away...

Pumpkin Harvest Week - Day 1.

First one out of the patch. Holy cow at the size of these things!

The first five wound up being so big that I could barely fit them into the loader bucket on the tractor and then I had to slowly creep it back to the barn so they would not spill out. Next, we washed them, weighed them and measured them for the farm logs.

The biggest one of the five weighed 48.4 lbs!

The nights stats... Wrestling these five was a workout!! Could not wait for Day 2!