"Pumpkin picking" WTF

You got me! All the weeks training for it just so I could post a picture with my medal.

I mean who doesn't like getting up early on a Sunday morning to go and run 10km. Put myself down for a half marathon next year too, just for the gram pictures.

Bit silly really since the pictures that got taken by the official organisers are awful so I'm out there for the whole world to see 😱

Hocus pocus I turn you into pumpkin pie!!!

No it isn't! See my last two posts

I know a few people who went and never posted about it on social media?

Do you know anything about growing pumpkins?! They ripen at different points in the season and need to be harvested then or they rot! It's almost impossible to have them all ripe on their vines for that one/two week period for people to 'pick' 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Oh, get off the stage. You've lost your audience.

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As the farmer above mentioned, as a Pumpkin grower, I would def NOT want children sawing through the vines!

Also, the pumpkins ripen at a very different rate and leaving them on a vine that dies after the pumpkin ripens, would lead to the pumpkin eventually rotting. Also, some older vines (ie: ones which have a pumpkin almost ripe) are RIFE for powdery mildew and if that occurs, then you need to harvest the pumpkin asap! t it will become infected too....

My sister goes real pumpkin picking in the US, apple picking too. But it's real. Kind of bizarre just putting them out there.

People who take their kids to pick your own pumpkins should be strung up for the 5th November and turned into pumpkin pie.

Argh pressed return too soon. I suppose people from a background where kids might have had to work picking veg for money would see pumpkin picking as common for the same reason

My MIL wouldn't let DH and his brother go trick or treating because she thought it was begging. She was from a generation and class where people might actually have sent their kids out to the neighbours begging...

Just get a packet of seeds, only couple of quid, get an old bin/ potato growing sack Poundland or garden centre & chuck veg waste / compost etc in . Pop the bin in the yard in garden. Seeds can germinate on window ledge in Aldi compost & yogurt pot. Loads of squash & pumpkin varieties, and very prolific too ! Then use the inside for soup & stew and kids learn useful skills for when it all goes mad max

😆 love this....certainly give the aliens something to chuckle at!

Clearly you only did that 10k for the ‘gram and the likes.

being sarcastic, of course. Well done you!

Cos people do it cos they think they "it's Halloween and the marketing says I need to do some activity to keep up with the Joneses' and to be insta perfect".

They don't just engage their brains and do something with their kids cos it's the 2nd Tuesday that falls on a wet day. No it's cos they are robots who aren't able to think of something fun to do without it being flogged to them.

It's manufactured forced fun. It's not spontaneous or real.

Our local one is very good and picturesque and reasonably priced.

Quite honestly, being from an agricultural community myself, I'd rather pay a decent amount direct to the farmer than a pittance to a supermarket which keeps half (being generous) and has beaten the farmers down to the lowest possible price.

I haven't done it myself, but surely it's just a bit of fun particularly for kids? They don't pick them in the sense of getting them off the plan - but select one. I don't see a problem myself - gets everyone out the house and having some fun provided wellies and coats are worn.

Why would people go pumpkin picking just for the sole purpose of taking photos? They share photos because they are having a nice time and want to share that with friends and family.

Yesterday I posted a selfie of myself with a medal after finishing a 10K race, beating my previous 10K time. I was very proud of myself (and I think I absolutely should be!) so I wanted to share that moment with my friends and family on social media.

My local ones are all picking the pumpkins where they've grown and they are reasonably priced. £3 entry and I got 3 pumpkins (1 x large traditional, 1 large x white and 1 x med Green) for £10. Kids love it and we carve them that day.

Snobbery is a sad way to parent.

I hope your children have a blast, and end up with memories of a lovely, happy childhood.

Agreed and with the constant pressure on mums (too little time outside, too much time inside, too many pictures, too few pictures, feeling like you've done too little to fill half term, feeling like you've had to balance out-of-the-home work and child care and feeling crap about both, spending too much money on activities, not having enough money to spend on activities) who gives a damn whether they do take a few pictures and post them to show they had a lovely time. Sounds fab to me - everyone gets some fresh air, a bit of fun and a pumpkin to carve.

It's like the slating that the pumpkin spice latte loving people get - it's a bit of joy in a fecking miserable world at the moment.

So true!! Nothing like sneering at anyone enjoying their life and inviting others to enjoy it with them!

YANBU. It’s totally mad.

If it was picking real pumpkins that’d be one thing though still grumbling loudly about how Hallowe’en is a load of twaddle but selecting a pumpkin from a field it hasn’t grown in? Mad.

And I say that as a woman with a 4 year old who does go strawberry picking.

Each to their own but it’s not for me.

It does make me laugh that you pay 2-3 x as much for a pumpkin that has been driven to a muddy field on a trailer.

‘Making memories’ is just code for ‘getting photos for instagram/facebook’ isn’t it?

We used to grow ours when DS was young, doesn't anyone do that anymore, of course its a bit hit and miss with what you get but nice to watch them growing.

It’s SUCH a lazy argument to say “everything is for social media these days”. It happens on threads where someone is going to spend more than 19p on their wedding “must be for likes!!”