I did get the pumpkin, squash, gourd, and corn maze seeds ordered for the pumpkin patch for Pumpkin Fest 2012.   They have been arriving at our Kansas pumpkin patch.   Our Kansas pumpkin patches will be rotated this year because every 2-3 years, the pumpkins need to be planted on new ground.   So don’t come looking behind the house for the pumpkin patch in 2012, because it will probably be a milo, corn, or bean field!   Some pumpkin patches where there isn’t alot of “extra” ground available, have to plant on the same ground year after year and are forced to face the problems of soil borne diseases.    If  a pumpkin patch isn’t growing their own pumpkins and are buying them in, they don’t have this worry.    But here at our Kansas agritourism facility, we do grow our own and consider ourselves lucky to live in Kansas where we aren’t “land locked” and  have the option of moving our fields as we need on the farm.

One of our new items here at Walters’ Pumpkin Patch this year will be the addition of apple cider donuts.   Doesn’t the sound of such just make your mouth water?   We are still working out the details with a facility who has a donut machine for sale.   Keep your fingers crossed.

Carroll has run several new ideas past my brain cells lately.   It is so funny that our roles on the pumpkin patch have reversed over all these years.   Carroll now has the new ideas….AND has to build them.   I used to have the new ideas….AND he had to build them.   

Well, until next time…..we’re countin’ the pumpkin seeds!

We here at the Walters’ Pumpkin Patch wish each of our friends a continued Christmas spirit throughout the new year.  May the love and warmth that each of us feels during the holiday season  continue in each of our hearts throughout 2012.   May your  hopes and dreams remain fresh in your thoughts.  That is our wish for each of you.

I’m certain that next year will bring more dreams for us at our Kansas agritourism facility as Carroll’s to-do list grows and grows.   I am still dreaming of growing those square pumpkins, using our own apples to make apple cider, a trackless train besides the barrel train which can be rode by adults, and the list goes on and on.   Who knows what Pumpkin Fest 2012 will offer our visitors!

Until next time….”I’m dreaming of an orange pumpkin” instead of the white Christmas!