On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 Dave Smith wrote:
>On 2019-12-29 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.
Since my wife spends Christmas with her sons and grands these were
Lung Guyland punkins... they hadn't had a hard frost yet so these were
in great condition. In fact they were difficult to cut up even with
my 12" carbon steel chef's knife. Iwas considering pies for a minute
but we can buy pies a lot easier. I always have a relaxing *quiet*
Christmas cat sitting. When the grands were small they wold visit for
a couple of days but now they are teens and get bored here, plus they
are noisy and messy.
>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.
>
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>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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