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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2019-12-29 9:52 a.m., wrote:
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> My wife's sons had two giant pumpkins ot their front entrance as
> decorations. They were going to trash them but my wife said she'd
> take them for deer food. Yesterday I hacked up two forty pound
> pumpkins and we tossed them out in the yard. This morning most was
> gone but still some for tonight. Would have been a shame to toss them
> in the trash when the critters could enjoy them... we saved some seeds
> for planting.

My wife likes to put pumpkins on the porch for Thanksgiving decorations.
Bear in mind that our Thanksgiving is around mid October. They freeze
and thaw a few times before they are removed. Some of them have turned
pretty mushy by that time so we stopped using the really big ones. They
are too hard to deal with when they go soft. I take them around to the
other side and drop them along the edge of our property and the critters
get to eat them there. Occasionally a pumpkin plant will appear the next
year.

My wife also likes to use small gourds for interior decorating. Years
ago we started tossing them into the composter when the decorations
changed, and every year we get gourds growing there so we never have to
buy new ones.

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