"If you aren't blowing 'em, you aren't growing 'em!"

Maybe I was luckier to harvest a pumpkin last year than I realized. Growers pour on the fertilizer and do all sort s of tricks to make these beasts huge, but sometimes the pumpkin just grows *too* fast and splits open.

I've seen a grower in South Dakota who had 9 plants last year and 3 pumpkins that made it. Another in Rochester had 7 plants and only 2 pumpkins made it..

I'm still only planing one plant, but I'm hoping to set 2 or even 3 pumpkins on it this year, if I can.