Pumpkins & Patches
Botanically speaking a pumpkin is
What is A fruit, specifically a type of winter squash
This fall, fruit is the main attraction at Michigan’s many you-pick orchards.
What are apples?
What Mexican holiday, celebrated on November 1 and 2, honors deceased loved ones?
What is Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)?
The primary agronomic benefit of planting a cover crop after fall harvest
What is to protect soil from erosion, capture nutrients, and improve soil health
This Ray Parker Jr. theme song asks who you are going to call when supernatural activity causes trouble.
What is “Ghostbusters”?
It takes a pumpkin approximately this long grow from planting to full maturity
What is 90–120 days (about 3–4 months)
This insect is especially important for pollinating apple blossoms
What is Bees, including honeybees and native bees
Before pumpkins became popular for jack-o’-lanterns, people in Ireland commonly carved this root vegetable
What is a turnip?
“Test weight” measures what when evaluating harvested grain?
what is weight of a given volume of grain
In this Disney Halloween movie, three witch sisters return to Salem after a magical spell brings them back.
What is Hocus Pocus?
The larvae of this insect tunnel into pumpkin stems and can cause vines to wilt
What is the squash vine borer?
This term describes apple trees producing a heavy crop one year and a much lighter crop the next.
What is biennial bearing?
This Halloween party game, associated with Irish and British autumn traditions, was once used in some versions to predict who would marry first.
What is apple bobbing?
For storing shelled corn long-term, the approximate standard moisture content is
What is 15% moisture or lower
This 1962 novelty hit by Bobby “Boris” Pickett is a Halloween party staple featuring a dance performed by monsters
What is “Monster Mash”?
The two main factors that help determine when a pumpkin is ready to harvest is
What is mature color and a hard rind
An apple grower might remove fallen apples from the orchard floor for this reason
What is Fallen fruit can harbor insect pests and disease organisms
What Christian observance, celebrated on November 1, helped shape the name Halloween?
What is All Saints' Day?
Oceana County in Michigan is also known as the blank capital of the world for the production of this crop
What is asparagus
In this classic Halloween special, Linus waits in a pumpkin patch for a mysterious holiday visitor
What is It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?
The disease that is caused by a fungus-like organism that can devastate pumpkin vines in wet conditions
What is Phytophthora blight
These specialized root systems help control tree size and improve harvesting efficiency in commercial orchards.
What are dwarfing rootstocks?
This ancient Celtic festival marked a seasonal transition from harvest toward winter and was associated with beliefs about the boundary between the living and the dead becoming less distinct.
What is Samhain?
This renewable-energy process uses microorganisms to break down organic waste and produce methane-rich biogas.
What is anaerobic digestion?
The name of the town where Stranger Things takes place
What is Hawkins Indiana