A tiny corner of our local giant Halloween house.
I am actually writing this on Halloween night. We have had maybe 30 kids and it is raining.
I think I have shared that the garden pumpkin situation is bad. Last year I learned I had something called squash bugs. I didn’t get a single pumpkin.
This year since I had the brand new raised beds with only dirt from the landscaping place I thought I was okay. I was not.
And squash bugs are creepy. There are tons of them. I tried to manage them by picking them (scraping them by the handful) and tossing into a bucket of sudsy water and it was so icky.
Image sourced from the Public Domain Image Archive / Yale University Art Gallery
I bought an eating pumpkin from the grocery store. I want to say it was a sugar pumpkin but I’m not positive.
I cooked it the way I cook all my pumpkins and I made pumpkin soup.
It was not delicious.
Since then, I bought a red kuri and a blue kuri and a cinderella pumpkin and I’m going to process those for pies and soup (and hope they taste better!). We also eat a lot of pumpkin chili although it’s mostly because in the past I grew so many pumpkins we had tons in the freezer.
