After the Festival of Bands, we headed over to the Garden of Weedin’. It’s this great little vegetable farm on the South Dakota-Iowa border that we’ve visited the past couple of years for our pumpkins. They have a huge patch and are very organized in allowing you to go pick your own pumpkins. They’re usually $1 each and are all you can pick. But this year, the crop is a little later than usual and because of the numbers, they instituted $2 per pumpkin and two pumpkins per person.
Well, Carissa came with us so we were able to get ten! We pick a couple for carving, of course, and then use a couple to decorate the front of the house.
They were right about the crop being low this year but we found some decent ones. Alexis did get a little picky. Auntie Peepers had to help her pick just the right one.
When we’re done picking out our pumpkins, one of the workers gives you a slip to go pay for them and then we head into the shed to find other goodies. I usually grab about half a dozen of the dried corn cobs, some small gourds and anything else that looks good. And with 10 pumpkins outside, the whole experience cost us under $20!!! Time for some lunch and a nap!
On a sad note, we didn’t get to fully enjoy our pumpkins. Some punk kids stole five of them from our displays a few weeks later. I had heard some noises alongside our house in the middle of the night and thought it might have been the neighbor girls looking for their cat. But no, it was pumpkin thieves. At least we didn’t find them smashed anywhere and we hadn’t carved them yet, so I hope they got put to good use.
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