YOUR
YOUR HALLOWEEN PUMPKINS YET? FOR MANY OF US, IT'S AN
ANNUAL FAMILY
TRADITION, AND THERE
ARE SEVERAL PLACES
AROUND SOUTHWEST
IDAHO WHERE YOU CAN
FIND THE PERFECT
PUMPKIN.
TODAY ON 'YOU CAN
GROW IT', GARDEN
MASTER JIM DUTHIE TAKES
US TO ONE TREASURE
VALLEY PUMPKIN PATCH,
WHERE YOU'LL FIND AN
ASSORTMENT OF NOT-
SO-ORDINARY PUMPKINS,
THAT WILL MAKE YOUR
HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN JACK-O- LANTERN REALLY DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE.
JORDAN'S
JORDAN'S PUMPKIN PATCH HAS TWO LOCATIONS, ONE IN
MERIDIAN ON FAIRVIEW
"HALLOWEEN'S RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER, AND AS YOU START
DECORATING AND
CHOOSE PUMPKINS FOR
YOUR JACK-O-LANTERNS,
YOU JUST MIGHT WANT
TO LOOK FOR SOME
PRETTY UNIQUE ONES.
JORDAN'S PUMPKIN
PATCH HAS PRETTY
INTERESTING GOURDS,
SQUASHES AND
PUMPKINS."
ON THIS SUNNY BUT
BLUSTERY FALL DAY, A FEW
FAMILIES HAVE BROUGHT
OUT THE LITLE GUYS IN
SEARCH OF JUST THE
RIGHT PUMPKIN FOR
HALLOWEEN.
FOUR-YEAR-OLD AYDEN
HAD A LITTLE TROUBLE
PICKING THIS ONE UP,
BUT IT LOOKS LIKE HE
EVENTUALLY FOUND ONE
THAT HE COULD HANDLE.
"IT'S NOT TOO HEAVY."
THERE AREN'T BIG
CROWDS AND BIG KIDS
HERE, AND THERE'S NO
CORN MAZE TO GET LOST
IN. IT'S A SMALLER
PUMPKIN PATCH THAT'S
PERFECT FOR THE LITLE
ONES, WITH LOTS OF FUN
THINGS TO DO.
LIKE WANDERING
THROUGH THE HAY BALE
MAZE... THEN TAKING A
TURN RIDING THE BALE
BULL... AND PLAYING IN
THE CORN KERNEL
SANDBOX WITH STARRY
THE GOAT, WHO'S JUST
ANOTHER KID.
OWNER JORDAN RISCH
SAYS THAT WAS THE
WHOLE IDEA BEHIND HIS
PUMPKIN PATCH.
"I'VE BEEN DOING THIS
FOR FOUR YEARS, AND
SEEING THE KIDS COME IN
WHEN THEY'RE REALLY,
REALLY LITTLE, AND EVERY
YEAR THERE'S A NEW
ADDITION TO THE FAMILY,
OR THE KIDS ARE A LITTLE
BIT
BIT BIGGER, YOU JUST REMEMBER THEM FROM YEAR TO YEAR."
"IT'S BEEN A PRETTY BIG
HIT WITH THE
COMMUNITY. WE'VE
GOTTEN A LOT OF GREAT
FEEDBACK WITH WHAT
WE'RE DOING HERE."
AND THEN THERE ARE
THE PUMPKINS, WITH A
HUGE VARIETY OF
DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE
ONES TO CHOOSE FROM.
OF COURSE, THERE ARE
THE TRADITIONAL
ORANGE JACK-O-LANTERN
PUMPKINS.
"I LIKE THE ROUND,
BIGGER ROUNDER ONES."
"YEAH, LIKE THAT SIZE..
MAKE A FACE."
AS WELL AS MANY
DIFFERENT COLORED
PUMPKINS, INCLUDING
SOME THAT WOULD MAKE
A REALLY STRANGE JACK-
O-LANTERN FACE.
"LIKE A MONSTER, A
MONSTER FACE, OR LIKE IT
HAS PIMPLES ALL OVER
IT."
THERE ARE EVEN SOME
LITTLE ALIEN-LOOKING
GOURDS THAT THE KIDS
WOULD LIKE.
"SHE LIKES THE SQUASH."
SOME OF THESE
PUMPKINS ARE ALMOST
BIGGER THAN THE KIDS,
AND CERTAINLY WEIGH
MORE.
"THEY'RE ALL SQUASH OR
VARIETIES OF SQUASH.
OVER THE YEARS I'VE
ADDED SOME THAT ARE
UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT.
SO YOU GET A LOT OF
THESE
THESE DIFFERENT ONES THAT ARE GREEN, SOLID
COLORS,
COLORS, OR WITH THE BUMPS ON THEM."
"SOME
"SOME OF
"SOME OF THEM DON'T HAVE NAMES. THEY'RE
JUST
JUST CROSS BRED, AND WHATEVER LOOKS COOL
WE
WE KIND
WE KIND OF KEEP ENCOURAGING AND
ENCOURAGING AND
GROW
GROW FROM
GROW FROM YEAR TO YEAR." "THIS ONE HERE IS
CALLED A' WOLF
PUMPKIN'. IT'S GOT A
HUGE STEM ON IT."
"THESE ONES ARE CALLED
'GOOSEBUMPS'". "JUST HAD A MUTATION
WHATEVER
WHATEVER LOOKS COOL WE KIND OF KEEP ENCOURAGING AND
GROW FROM YEAR TO
YEAR."
"THIS ONE HERE IS
CALLED A' WOLF
PUMPKIN'. IT'S GOT A
HUGE STEM ON IT."
"THESE ONES ARE CALLED
'GOOSEBUMPS'".
"JUST HAD A MUTATION
WHERE THEY HAVE THESE
LITTLE BUMPS ON THEM,
AND PEOPLE LOVE THEM,
LIKE A WARTY WITCH OR
WHATEVER."
"AGAIN, JUST CROSSED
TWO DIFFERENT
VARIETIES, AND YOU GET
THESE COOL, UNIQUE
COLORATIONS ON IT, AND
SHAPES, AND TEXTURES
TO THEM."
SOME OF THEM ARE SO
UNIQUE THAT THE
GROWERS HAVE PATENTS
AND TRADEMARKS ON
THEM.
"SO THIS ONE IS
ACTUALLY A TRADEMARK
CALLED
CALLED 'ONE TOO MANY', AND THE REASON WHY THEY CALL IT THAT IS
BECAUSE IT CLOSELY
RESEMBLES A BLOOD
SHOT EYE BALL."
"THESE ARE CALLED
"CINDERELLAS", BECAUSE
THEY KIND OF ARE
SHAPED LIKE THE TYPICAL
CINDERELLA PUMPKINS."
"AND THEN, OF COURSE,
THE BIG 'WHITE GHOST'
PUMPKIN, WHICH ISN'T A
PUMPKIN AT ALL. THAT'S
ACTUALLY A SQUASH."
THIS ONE EVEN HAS AN
EERIE GREENISH-BLUE TINT
TO IT.
"YEAH, SO THAT'S CALLED