Funny pumpkin story...

Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:33 am

So we planted sugar pie pumpkins this year, just 5 (we're very much "a little of this, a little of that" kind of gardeners as it keeps the kids interested) But a few days after we put the seeds in, we had a HUGE rain and none sprouted. Re-planted and they are doing ok, but no pumpkins yet (first female flower fell off without ever opening).

Meanwhile, the yard is going to hell, husband has been having issues (pnuemonia, broken rib etc.) and what with one thing and another no mowing has been done forever it seems like. :oops:

So brother in law is over the other day to do the mowing, but he got to a spot above the driveway and below the garden and stopped. I went out to check on the garden and discovered why he had stopped....there is a 15' pumpkin vine in there! :shock:

Checking on it today and, as it sits now, the only pumpkin in my garden is on the plant that ran away....not sure what to make of that :lol:

Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:03 am

Pumpkin is greener on the other side.

Eric

Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:05 am

Cute story. Maybe the gold slippers will show up next! Pumpkins are funny they want to hide!

Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:11 am

Cinderella had grass slippers.

Eric

Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:16 am

Grass is green just like the punpkin. I did not know the slippers were green!

Mon Jul 18, 2011 3:35 am

Frank,

I'm being silly. Cinderella had glass slippers.

Fur-gold-silver in some cases. Maybe.

Eric

Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:48 pm

My pumpkins (2 plants I garden similar to you), have taken over... I had to carefully clip them out of the peppers, chives, potato's and lavender. They went everywhere they weren't supposed to go and not really anywhere I hoped they would.
I think pumpkins have a mind of their own....

Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:01 pm

You never know what you might find hiding here and there. Especially around my place. :lol:

Just make a ramp over the pumpkin vine and continue cutting the grass for now. :lol:

Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:49 pm

I have been "hand clipping" around my pumpkin, it took over the lawn... I use the clippings to nest my pumpkins with :lol:

Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:05 pm

cherishedtiger wrote:I have been "hand clipping" around my pumpkin, it took over the lawn... I use the clippings to nest my pumpkins with

Sounds like you have it under control.

Happy pumpkining (is that a word?).

Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:35 pm

Hmmmm pumpkining works for me!!! I like it!

Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:54 am

I think it's awesome that you have a yard that can hide a 15' vine. Keep looking! Maybe there's something else lurking out there.

Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:36 am

TheWaterbug wrote:I think it's awesome that you have a yard that can hide a 15' vine. Keep looking! Maybe there's something else lurking out there.

on the one hand, finding it was pretty cool, on the other hand, you can just imagine how tall the "grass" had to be to hide it....

In truth it is kind of neat, because our property is just a bit over 7 acres, we spent the first couple years after we moved in finding all kinds of stuff growing out there.