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Pumpkins In Our Front Yard!!

Pumpkins in our front yard

Yes, I planted pumpkins in our front yard 2 months ago and I'm as excited as a little kid, watching them grow! I've never grown them successfully before... EVER! The seeds I used were from last year's jack o'lanterns that I carved with the grandkids. Theirs were 2 different kinds of mystery squash-kins... squat and super hard to carve. Mine was a classic carving pumpkin from a local grocery store. I started the seeds in my greenhouse exactly 3 months ago (April 29th) and you can see how successful that was! 

Classic pumpkin


Piggyback (oops, the top one rolled off)


Dangler (I'll have to add a support this one)


Jack-B-Littles for the dolls!

There's 6 mounds of pumpkins across the front of my new flower garden bed with some fresh compost/soil. Maybe that's why they're so very happy. The 'Jacks' are marching forward across the lawn and sprawling backwards towards the house thru the bed of cutting flowers and sunflowers. 

Sunflowers next to bird feeder

We let our lawn dry out in late summer we won't have to worry about mowing around the vines.
Rain will begin in earnest in late October but the pumpkins should be harvested by then. Since Halloween will be challenging this year our grandkids can come choose their own pumpkins from Gram & Gramps without having to keep their distance from strangers in a big field. 
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