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August rainfall means there will be plenty of pumpkins to pick at central Indiana farms this fall

Posted at 3:27 PM, Sep 21, 2016
and last updated 2016-09-22 04:35:25-04

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. -- Pumpkin patches around central Indiana should be plentiful this year due to all the rain we had in August.

Loren Schmierer has grown pumpkins at Stonycreek Farm in Noblesville for 44 years.

Schmierer plants each pumpkin seed by hand.

He says the biggest challenges to growing the perfect crop include beetles and plant diseases.

Stonycreek Farm, at 11366 Indiana 38, celebrates its 44th annual Pumpkin Harvest Festival from October 1 through October 31.

Here are a few other places you can purchase pumpkins around central Indiana;

And for more pumpkin patches in Indiana, click here.