Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater is actually a ...

[Luremaker]

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater is actually a mouse and he was living in one of my pumpkins. While out picking pumpkins yesterday I found this little hole in one of the pumpkins. Gave the pumpkin a good shaking and out came this little critter. Almost all the seeds were eaten.

Here is a close up of the hole...

Here is the little critter after we gave the pumpkin a little shaking... my helpers took care of him.

I made over ten trips to the patch yesterday. Here s a load of Cinderella pumpkins.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Looks like he had been in there for a while.

Nice load of pumpkins. I did not plant any this year, need to get irrigation system hooked up. I hope to to that this winter. The last few years have been hot and dry.

 

[JB4310]

They are opportunists, live in a house made of food, what could be better

Pumpkins look great!

JB

 

[Luremaker]

Looks like he had been in there for a while.

Nice load of pumpkins. I did not plant any this year, need to get irrigation system hooked up. I hope to to that this winter. The last few years have been hot and dry.

This was the only yellow Atlantic pumpkin so he must have moved in a few weeks ago.

This year my yield is down at least 20%. Smaller pumpkins on average, some like my Atlantics were half what they should have been.. We had lot's of rain but little heat until mid July. Most plants did not vine until the first week of August and some just did not fruit. My Howdens and Cinderella pumpkins did the best. We are very fortunate in our area because we receive an inch or so of rainfall every few weeks. It's been 5 years since our last dry summer.

They are opportunists, live in a house made of food, what could be better

Pumpkins look great!

JB

This was the first time I've seen one move inside a pumpkin. Usually they just chew on the skin.