NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (KCRG) - With many families preparing to take their kids to the pumpkin patch this fall, one pumpkin farmer says that too little snow and too much rain have combined to create problems this year.

With a bounce pad, corn box, and playground equipment, Dean Colony, owner of Colony Acres Pumpkin Patch, is bringing back all the fan favorites this year. And that includes dozens of different pumpkins.

“This is a Jarrahdale,” said Colony. “Really good for baking.”

The lack of a good cover crop, combined with a wet early summer, is what Colony said led to pumpkins peeking through overgrown weeds.

“You don’t like your feet in mud, neither does a pumpkin,” he said. “It can create a soft bottom, they can start rotting a little earlier, and then it brings in a host of weeds wit

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