Labrador pumpkins get chilly. She’s knitting them sweaters

At the moment I'm making a sweater for the pumpkins here at the PIE Center, obviously on an August day. I'm Sarah Pappel. I'm the campus librarian at the Labrador campus of Memorial University. We have a short growing season. Pumpkins have thin skin and they get nice and big and then they stop growing because we get the frost. So I offered to give a try making some pumpkin sweaters without ever considering making i knit but i've never knit a sweater for a vegetable nor for a purpose of saving the vegetables life from the frost there are no pumpkin sweater patterns that i could find so i've also had to design a pumpkin sweater that accommodates all the things that i was told so make sure it can grow so a nice big thick ribbing and then right up the stem so a nice turtleneck and then I've added things like buttons you know. So that should allow the pumpkin to feel comfortable as it grows but again this is this is new science we're not sure it's a new frontier. That's the best part about having a research farm attached to our campus is if you think of a research question the farmers will work with you.