Pumpkin pickin’ time

From the garden

Pumpkins are October’s vegetable. Garden-grown pumpkins are ready for harvesting and Pumpkin-Patch pumpkins are popping up everywhere.

Garden-grown pumpkins noticeably transform from week to week as they mature and ripen developing signals when they are ready for harvest: fruits swell, textures and colors change, and vine growth changes.

Signs pumpkins are ready to harvest:

• Tendrils …