HALLOW-FACT of The Day- 22 Days to HALLOW-DEGA^SM

Pumpkins can be found in a variety of colors. Most people have only seen orange pumpkins but they also come in white, blue, green, and red. White pumpkins come in a number of varieties such as Lumina, Cotton Candy or miniature Baby Boo. Blue pumpkins are often referred to as Australian Blue Pumpkins. Green Pumpkins come from a Jack O’Lantern pumpkin being unripe, they can be a pale or a dark green. Red pumpkins are referred to as “Rouge D’Etant”, but are better known as Cinderella pumpkins.

 Here are some pumpkin patches in Alabama. Go out and get some pumpkins…they make great decorations. Maizing Family Fun Farm in Baldwin County (251-747-1368); Talleys Farm in Dekalb County (256-303-8888); Old Baker Farm in Shelby County (205-672-7209); and Dream Field Farms in Bullock County (888-215-2725). Visit http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/ALpumpkins.php  to learn more.

brentsummers:

I <3 Linus, and the Great Pumpkin.

exclamationmark:

“No Hallowe’en Without A Jack-O-Lantern” from The Book of Hallowe’en (1919).

From HALLOW-DEGA: Can you carve the Talladega Superspeedway logo in your pumpkin?

abalooshi:

how will you carve your pumpkin this halloween?

HALLOW-FACT of The Day - 29 Days to HALLOW-DEGA^SM

Far from the pumpkin’s native Central America, chilly Illinois produces more than 90% of U.S. pumpkins. In the year 2005, Illinois produced 496 million pounds of pumpkin.

Here are some pumpkin patches in Alabama: The Great Pumpkin Patch in Blount County(205-647-2183); The Gypsy Ranch in Etowah County(256-140-4994); Grand Old Pumpkin Patch in Chilton County (205-755-4553); and Misty Hollow Farms in Lawrence County (256-476-6281).  Visit http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/ALpumpkins.php  to learn more.