A dry summer and a late start to fall have impacted area pumpkin farms in more ways than one.

“It’s been slow I think because it’s been so warm and people aren’t thinking fall,” said Kim Nelson of Nelson’s Pumpkins and Farm Market in Oregon. “It’s been 90 every weekend.”

“It was a little bit of a rough growing season with the drought, but that’ll work out,” said Gwen Langenderfer of Pumpkin Pete’s & Gwen’s Gourds in Perrysburg. “We’re doing all right.”

There hadn’t been measurable rainfall for most of July, August, and September, Langenderfer said. But at the same time, she added, not having an early frost has kept the pumpkins on the vine.

Nelson said the growing season last year was worse. The Nelsons are also corn and soybean farmers.

There was no yield of giant pumpkins at Pumpkin

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