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Published October 12, 2009 12:07 pm - Visit Tim Britt’s farm in southern Barren County and you’ll be greeted by a Border Collie carrying a deflated basketball in his mouth. Area farmer ready for pumpkin season By GINA KINSLOW Glasgow Daily Times GLASGOW — Visit Tim Britt’s farm in southern Barren County and you’ll be greeted by a Border Collie carrying a deflated basketball in his mouth. The Border Collie is known as Nixon, The Pumpkin Dog.
Nixon will place his basketball at your feet and watch the ball closely, waiting to see if you will give it a kick while talking to Britt about pumpkins. Britt raised 15 acres of fruit this season. “They did pretty good this year,” he said, estimating he had roughly 1,000 pumpkins per acre. Britt sells his pumpkins wholesale and retail. He plants a small crop in May so he will have some available around Labor Day for his wholesale customers. “The rest of them we will plant sometime in June. Hopefully, if the weather cooperates, we will start harvesting around Sept. 15.” The secret to a good crop is making sure the vines are sprayed for disease. “You’ve got to have a religious spray regime in order to grow pumpkins in Kentucky,” he said. “They are disease ridden.” Some of the diseases that affect pumpkins are: Powdery Mildew, Downy Mildew, Gummy Stem Blight and Blotch. “You name it, they (can) get it,” he said. “They also get viruses.” Too much rain promotes disease, and the “heavier the pumpkin crop on the vine the more diseases you’ve got.” “The first of September my vines were hurting,” he said. “They were diseased up pretty good. I was afraid they weren’t going to make anything. I kept on spraying them and they finally straightened out and when the vines died down I saw I had a better crop than what I thought I had.” Britt raises several different types of pumpkins. “I’ve got five different speciality pumpkins and then I grow about four or five jack-o-lantern varieties,” he said. The varieties requested by most people who want to make a pumpkin pie from scratch, he said, are the Old Fashion and Fairytale pumpkins. 
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