Picking pumpkins is a tradition I hope to continue forever… until the boys are at least 60 anyway…
Lessons learned
Pick-your-own is clearly the most memorable, but also difficult to find. It may also be labeled ‘pick-your-own’ like Year 4 near Boston, but is actually a collection of pre-picked pumpkins near the parking lot.
Questions worth asking before you visit:
- Access to the field to physically pick your own?
- Price per pound or per pumpkin?
- Is there a corn maze or food also?
- How long should we plan to spend there?
The Iterations
Year 1
Did nothing… as we were simply trying to survive being new parents
Year 2 (Best so far)
Rural Pennsylvania at a true pick-your-own, complete with a tractor ride to and from the field; having Grandma there also made it even that much better
Year 3 (Germany)
As ‘Halloween’ isn’t an international thing, I bought the monster-sized baking pumpkins that no one else wanted at the grocery store (price/kg made this pricey)
Year 4
Farm experience near Boston, pumpkins were already picked, but the boys liked picking out their own from the pumpkin area and pulling it around in the supplied wagons
