Big Moose, Captain Jack, Early Giant and Large Marge are some of the large pumpkin varieties that have done well in previous North Dakota home garden trials. (Flickr photo by ZakVTA)
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 summer...
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