Missing pumpkin
Remember the terrible pumpkin harvest of 2009? Poor weather during the growing season and rainy harvest conditions resulted in what growers called the worst harvest in 35 years.
Enough pumpkin was garnered to get us through the holiday season last year, but Libby's, the canned pumpkin giant, warned that there would not be enough surplus canned pumpkin from the 2009 harvest to fill grocery shelves in the fall of 2010.
We will have to wait for this year's harvest to hit grocery store shelves. The good news is, weather conditions have been so good this summer that canning is already underway -- two weeks early.
However, a spokesperson for Nestle, Libby's parent company, says it will be mid-September before that canned pumpkin makes it to the supermarket.
Libby's grows most of its pumpkin on 5,000 acres near Morton, Ill. This year, the company added more acreage in order to increase production.
If you can't wait for Libby's pumpkin to reach your neighborhood grocery, I hear you can buy it on Ebay.
Comments
thank goodness.....I have three cans that a fellow Baltimore Sun blogger (Laura Lee) generously gave to me to tide me over.
That's The Sun for you. Always there! -- Susan
Posted by: Michelle Brown | August 11, 2010 4:41 PM