Harvesting Our Pumpkins!

Today we harvested our pumpkins, and we have twelve pumpkins! We even have three that are not ready to be picked and one tiny one that might still turn into a pumpkin!

Recently, we had been noticing that one of our pumpkins had begun to rot, and so mom looked up on the internet about how to harvest pumpkins. She read that when they are ready you cut them off of the vines a little way from the stem. Then put them in a dark, dry place for as long as you want to store them. (They also suggested to clean them with bleach and water, but I don't think we are going to do that.) After we picked them, we put them on some shelves in our garage. Hopefully, they will cure nicely, and we will have pumpkins to decorate with this fall.

For there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:..... a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted;
(Ecclesiastes 3:1,2 NRSV)