Growing pumpkins in containers is the perfect way to fit these big plants into an urban garden or small space. With their ...

Whole or carved pumpkins make excellent compost, but not all pumpkins should be composted. Every year, about 1.3 billion pumpkins are thrown in the trash in the United States. However, carved ...

Growing giant pumpkins takes a lot of dedication of space, water and time. This year, that dedication paid off for Mitch Krause of Chanhassen with a 1,217-pound pumpkin, the largest he has ever ...

From a monetary perspective, start with growing the highest value vegetables, then plan to purchase the rest from the store or farmers market.

Official GPC weigh-offs see a few thousand pumpkins a year, but Stelts estimates there are 10,000 total growers out there, waiting for the fairy godmother of gardening to turn their pumpkins into ...

Unlike many of these mentioned vegetables, the pumpkin has changed very little since it was first planted in primitive gardens. You can imagine that growing a large pumpkin was a prized food ...