New York Pumpkin Growers Having Big Year

Sep 26, 2013 1:25 PM

Joe Nittler

  

 

Talk about a cash crop. Last year New York pumpkin growers made 30-million dollars in revenue .  New York leads the rest of the country in the producing  carving pumpkins.  We asked Horticulture Professor Steve Reiners at the Experiment Station in Geneva what's constitutes the perfect Jack O' Lantern  pumpkin .

                

                                                                  

He says the monster sized pumpkins aren't that great for pies.

 

Reiners says growers have harvested a large early crop so selection is best right now

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