Winter is approaching. I've got 6 long months ahead to plan for next season. Things I will do different is to plant 1/2 my seeds of stock that is known to produce heavy pumpkins. I've proven that I can grow orange now I want heavy. I will pay more attention to micro nutrients during the growing season. I am going to spend the off season figuring out how to improve my Mg, Mn, B, and Ca in my patch/plants and fruit to see if it makes a difference.
I've added 360 bag of leaves to the north patch (none on the south as I will be putting it in cover crop next spring). I added 67 bales of straw to the north patch and 33 bales to the south patch.
The seeds are drying and should be ready to go in a couple of weeks.
One of these days I will get either a greenhouse or a cold frame that will allow me to grow one or several plants under cover. If a cold frame can do for my pumpkins what it does for my tomatoes then watch out.