Rainy Weather Hurts Maryland’s Pumpkin Supply

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It takes sunny, dry weather to grow pumpkins.
So it’s no surprise that after a very rainy summer — Maryland ended up with soggy pumpkins.
According to pumpkin grower Steve Weber, “There’s just too much water in the pumpkin, some of them you can hear it sloshing around. Just too much water.”
Weber couldn’t grow enough to stock his Parkville store. So he’s shipping in pumpkins from the Midwest to meet demand.
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