Its time to select and order seeds to be planted for the 2016 pumpkin season. Each year I receive more and more seed catalogues. I feel like I always see new varieties that I have never heard of which is so exciting. I will need to look through my seed files for any seeds not planted last year and then order what is needed for this year. Along with my pumpkin seeds, I'll also order a few new varieties of corn. I already have my bloody butcher and a nice deep purple ornamental. I hope to add the exciting glass gem seeds as well as a hardy basic variety that will provide very tall thick stalks for my corn bundles. Last year I did not spend enough time with my corn early on, so it failed. I ended up having to buy my corn stalk bundles. Although they were very nice bundles they were very high in price and that was passed on to my customers. This year I hope to have a really large crop of my own and therefore much lower prices. I am moving my pumpkin patch back to its original place. This location is the one that has grown the best pumpkins in the past. I am so excited to get them planted and watch them grow. I just hope we have less trouble with the squash bug this year!!! I plan on planting lots of varieties of pumpkins and any that I don't have or that fail I will be ordering again from Floydada. I'm so excited that my extra varieties come from the same farm that the Dallas Arboretum uses for their fall decorations!
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