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In Pinellas County we import our pumpkins

First, the bad news: pumpkins don’t grow very well in Florida.

 Heat, sandy soil, rainy summer seasons, fungal and insect problems make it tough to grow pumpkins and other gourds.

But here’s the good news: Big trucks bring pumpkins to Florida from other places!

And if you go to a place that sells pumpkins, it looks for all the world like a farm stand that just brought a bunch of pumpkins in from the fields.

I wanted to buy a pumpkin this weekend amd I saw in the newspaper that the East Lake United Methodist Church was going to be selling pumpkins once again this year, just as they have done in past Octobers. So I drove over there around mid-day.

Sure enough, it looked like a real farmer’s pumpkin patch.

I bought a nice medium-sized pumpkin, and I’m thinking about going back in a few days and buying a few gourds to use in decorating the house.

Tags: holidays

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