{"id":249,"date":"2025-10-01T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:17:37","slug":"pumpkin-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/01\/pumpkin-arch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Arch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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9\/21 to 10\/5. In a two week period the pumpkin went from ~2 feet to ~9, all the way around the top of the arch. These leaves were so big and healthy. A couple of things learned here. First, when we grow pumpkins next year on the arch we need to get a smaller variety. I transplanted the Connecticut Field Pumpkin here, which can get up to 25 lbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the timing was a little bit late. Our big pumpkin didn’t get orange until Thanksgiving. Third, I will try to manually pollinate more because we had 3 male flowers, but I think we can get more. Also, 2 dropped and I’m not sure why. Could have been heat, lack of pollinators, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

9\/21 to 10\/5. In a two week period the pumpkin went from ~2 feet to ~9, all the way around the top of the arch. These leaves were so big and healthy. A couple of things learned here. First, when we grow pumpkins next year on the arch we need to get a smaller variety. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}