Hello.

My name is Lorissa and I write the posts for the blog and update facebook. Besides working for Penner Pumpkins I work as a nurse. My main jobs with Penner Pumpkins is planning, seeding, working the gardens, selling at the Farmers' markets and off the home yard. I help out a little bit with the Scarecrow Forest, but I love the garden so that's why I mainly work with Penner Pumpkins.

I've had three days off from work so I've been seeding the pumpkins, gourds, and squash. We start all the squash in 2 inch pots, do half the gourds in pots, and a fourth to a half of the pumpkins in pots. The rest we are going to seed in the garden. It's easier to seed in the garden, but the garden soil has to be dry and warm. Last year we tried to seed in the garden, but it didn't work. We are going to give it another try this year. We hope to start planting our big garden May 30 and be done by June 11. I have also been working on my herbs. The first few markets we sell herbs in pots and herb gardens in containers.

I am happy that the weather has warmed up. Right now we could use temperatures in the high teens-low twenties and a strong south wind. This would help dry out our gardens. The big garden we don't plan to seed til the end of May, but our small garden we would love to get into it and finish planting, but it's too wet. I hope we have a dry summer and fall. Last year the fall weather was perfect and I hope it will be again this year.

Hope to see you at Pineridge Hollow Market or on the home yard.

Lorissa