Them are Some Punkins'

So as I write this post(October 5, 2009), I have looked out all day at about three to four inches of snow and sadly wish that fall was just starting...I've loved watching my garden grow all summer. We have been very lucky with all that we were able to harvest. I'm always a little sad as I watch it age and continue to die as the weather gets colder. A while back my dad told us that it was going to freeze and that we needed to gather in our pumpkins. We went out to do that and were kind of sad because they grew so big. Before we gathered these in, we got some great pictures to actually show how big they got. I also had some awesome sunflowers that are all now weighed down with snow. I miss fall already...and my peaches are almost out! Saddest part of the year for me!
We had a really long row this year of over 60 sunflowers. They all got at least 10 feet or taller. They were a pretty and impressive sight!

Does anyone have any good ways to get to the seeds? They are millions of them. Last year I tried, but I don't think I did so well! Any suggestions?

Loved these shots of the sunflowers and the sunset!

Here are some of our pumpkins that really grew this year. My mom told me they are called Turk's turban and they are really good to eat, however, I just wanted to grow them for decoration. We sure had a lot of these...however, our monster pumpkins are what I am the most proud of!

This plant that grew our monster pumpkins went nuts. These two pumpkins actually grew on the other side of the fence because the plant actually through the fence and then the pumpkins sprouted. It was funny because the vine of the pumpkin made it grow through into the fence and so it is deformed to look like a bum crack..we of course refer to it as the bum crack pumpkin! Ha!

Here are the bad boys....We had a hard time lifting them into our wagon to haul out of our garden and we are not sure how we are going to carve them, but we love our huge pumpkins! I believe this is the biggest thing I've ever grown!

These two grew side-by-side. I took Jake's advice and tried to put something up to it to give it perspective. I realize that my foot is not the best thing to put up...however, it was all I had at my disposal. It will show you, though, how it dwarfs my foot. I have big feet and they look small compared to these babies!

We had four total big pumpkins and some more small ones. We are excited for Halloween. So much so, that Peyton has already tried to chop into two of them...hope they make it. We duct-taped the holes he made...we'll see!