Each month in Garden Talk, you’ll meet a different master gardener or expert plant person from western Massachusetts, learn about their gardening lives, and get advice on everything from pumpkins to houseplants. A big part of gardening is community — people sharing tricks, trowels, plants and a general love of gardening — and these stories are an extension of that ethos.

Mums, kale and so many other wonderful fall classics are flourishing in pots and gardens all over western Massachusetts, but today we’re focusing on perhaps the most popular squash this time of year: pumpkins. Horticulturist and plantswoman Jennifer Kujawski, who earned a bachelor’s degree in botany at the University of Massachusetts and a master’s degree in horticulture at the University of Maryland, will share a slew of

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