I have an allotment. Tried to grow pumpkins this year (first time), but some kind of animal dug the plants up before they got settled. Currently have approximately 2 butternut squashes for picking which I'll be doing while my toddler digs some random holes and then waters them. Anyway, my failed attempts to grow gourds aside, I don't understand taking young kids to pumpkin patches - am I missing something? Maybe it's just my toddler who wouldn't really understand the point.
Poor Ronnie missing out, although I bet he was having a much better time at nursery than with grabby-claws