By Tom Kalb, Horticulturist It’s fun to grow your own Halloween pumpkins.
Bigger is often better, but I don’t want to grow a giant, 300-pound pumpkin. Those pumpkins are lopsided. They are ugly. They look more tan than orange in color. Their vines gobble up the entire garden.
Giant pumpkins require a lot of work. You have to start the seeds indoors. You have to feed and water the vine constantly all…