Is it just me, or do you think the pumpkin prices for 2024 are a little crazy? Well, prices for everything seem a little high these days if you ask me, but I was definitely surprised to see mini pumpkins selling for $4 a piece!!
Note to self: Grow as many mini pumpkins as possible next year!
Have you priced pumpkins in your local area? I was thinking about going all out this year for fall. Not as many people seem to do it anymore and I LOVE driving by homes that are decked out with pumpkins and corn stalks all around the porch.
Once there is a chill in the air and the leaves start falling it’s just magical. According to the weather report today will be the last day in the 70’s in my neck of the woods. After that we should be in the mid 60’s. Fall is coming, that’s for sure, and I’m pretty happy about that.
After seeing mini pumpkins going for $4 a piece, the heirloom pumpkins for $1 a pound seemed like a deal. Have you priced pumpkins in YOUR area yet? How much are these beauties going for in your neck of the woods?
I noticed another local nursery had regular pumpkins for $0.79 a pound and the fancy heirlooms for $1.29 a pound.
Market Basket has even better deals but I’d much rather buy my pumpkins from a farm. From the people who actually grew them, if you know what I mean.
Curious minds want to know… How much are pumpkins going for in YOUR area? Do you have a favorite place you go back to year after year to get yours?
~Mavis
Elaine says
I just bought pumpkins from a local farm family. Mini gourds and pumpkins 3 for a dollar. Small medium and jumbo pumpkins (all colors and types) 2,4, and six dollars each.
They are also selling butternut squash and spaghetti squash for a dollar each.
Mavis Butterfield says
3 for $1 is a DEAL!!!
Katelyn says
Pumpkins have been expensive since the weather became so unpredictable and Instagram made the heirlooms trendy. Where I live, it’s still pretty easy to find a reasonably sized carving pumpkin for $10, which is what they’ve been for a long time.
Check Trader Joe’s for better prices on decorative pumpkins – that’s usually where I get mine.
Lynn says
Wow, $4 for a mini pumpkin is outrageous! Maybe they’ll lower the prices if they’re not selling? I live in the DMV where you might expect high prices but my local grocery store has a basket of mini pumpkins sitting outside with a 10 for $10 sign, so $1 a piece.
Mavis Butterfield says
I just checked an old blog post and it looks like I was selling mini pumpkins in 2019 at my stand for $0.50 each. If I had a stand this year thought I would probably be selling them for $1 each. https://www.onehundreddollarsamonth.com/gardening-in-new-england-2/
Lesley says
Please share a picture if you do go “all out” with pumpkins and corn and hay bales etc! It’s my favorite thing to see.
Jamie says
Not worth it for something that is just decoration that will rot!! Everything is too expensive : (
Gigi says
I set them out for decoration and then pull them in before a frost, cook them and then freeze. The fancy ones have more flavor I think. Our grocery store had orange and fancy ones for $3.99 each.
Amber says
Canned pumpkin prices seem really high to me this year too!
Melinda Olson says
I’m in Northern Virginia, and our local store, Giant, has carving pumpkins 2 for $12 or $7 for 1. I believe they were 2 for $8 last year. Mini pumpkins at the same store are $1 each. I can remember them being .25 then .50 each not that long ago. Or maybe it was long ago and the years have gone by faster than it seems.
Aldi has had carving pumpkins in the past for $3-$4 each, I haven’t seen them there yet this year.
Jeanine says
Pumpkin Pies at Costco always seem to be the best deal during the fall season. I haven’t made a pumpkin pie for a few years.
I use to go all out with the corn stalks, pumpkins and scarecrows at the end of our driveway….but not now. I do enjoy seeing houses all decked out!
Rj says
Saw the pumpkin pies in Costco in Texas today!
Beccah says
Our son’s preschool does a field trip to a local farm in October. It’s so chaotic and fun! Imagine 15 preschoolers plus little siblings running around in a muddy field. I can’t wait!
sandy says
Trader Joes had good prices on both mini and heirloom pumpkins. A little too early in SoCal, but I am heading up to Cambria soon-and will go the farms up there. I love decorating for Fall. The best season I say!
SueD says
I bought a pie pumpkin at my local orchard, $4.99. Last year, it was $3.99. Back to growing my own next year. Acorn squash were 99 cents each last year, 99 cents/lb this year. I haven’t checked out big pumpkins this year, but I thought they were pricey last year.
HollyG says
Here, in the Willamette Valley, it looks like the regular pumpkins are about $3 in the field, the fancy blue/white/warty pumpkins are about $5. One farmer is selling ~ 4′ x 4′ x 4′ produce pallet boxes of pumpkins for $50.
Dianne L says
Yes, I recently heard pumpkin season could be bad this year because of the drought in midwest and other pumpkin growing states. They stated that pumpkin for pies this Thanksgiving will be high as well.
Sue says
Mini pumpkins where I am in central NH are 89 cents each. They have the white ones for the same price. $7 for the carving ones.
Vy says
Last year we went to the Remlinger Farms patch and it was SOOOO expensive. I had a new retaining wall and I said, “I can grow these next year” and boy howdy, I am! I have black and white and green and orange and knobby and mini and massive and so many pumpkins growing! I’m so excited 🙂
Cecile says
A girlfriend and I were out checking out a garden centre that is a bit highend the other day because they usually have really unique pumpkins. They hadn’t arrived and they wanted 8.99-10.99 for boring old pumpkins! We traveled down the road to hit up a different garden centre and stumbled by a mechanical shop with harvest crates full of specialty pumkins! I wheeled my truck into the driveway practically without slowing down, the prices were unbelieveable. The photo with the Not your Mother’s pumpkins…the light green and light orange and white flat pumpkins were $4 each didn’t matter the size! The warty pumkins were $4 each and regular old pumpkins and a couple varieties of squash were $3! Slipped our money into the lock box and packed up our loot!
Charla says
The cider mill we went to charged 39cents/lb, pie pumpkins for $3 and baby pumpkins for $1. Very reasonable I felt.
Dane says
Not positive where you are, but here in WA (the state, not the city). We hit a local farm and got 3 pumpkins for 93 bucks. 137 pounds of pumpkin. 0.68 per pound