Sunday, August 1, 2010

Surprise In The Garden

Frustrated that all of the pumpkins up until this point would turn yellow, shrivel up, and drop to the ground. A horrible wrinkled death. The pumpkinless vines had taken over the yard, and I started thinking well, at least I'll have the vines. But today - a six inch pumpkin obscured by some taller grass. It was like finding a golden egg. Some other little guys seem promising too. The two on the right have white blossoms - some form of brown gourd.

10 comments:

Damian Michael AKA HalloweeNut said...

Good for you, dude!

Watch Me Eat said...

What type of pumpkins are they?

Rot said...

Not really sure about the pumpkins. A bunch grew from our rotted pumpkins from last year, since we like to leave a lot of seeds in them. I should really know more about different types of pumpkins.

Guess it'll be a surprise.

Autumnleaf said...

Rot, you definitely have some kind of gourd growing in there as well (the white blossoms)...should be fun!! GO Pumpkins!!

Devon said...

Rot, I've grown pumpkins for the last four years and I read a tip online on how to keep your baby pumpkins from shriveling up and dying. Here is the tip: You have to hand pollinate the female flower with the pumpkin growing from the base. Meaning, take a male flower, a flower without a pumpkin and one stamen, break it off the vine when a female flower has blossomed and rub the male flower inside the female flower stamen(she has four to five finger like things in a circle). When baby p's die its because they have not been pollinated. I hope this trick works for you too!

suzanne said...

Looks like it's coming along well! I'm still holding out hope for my pumpkins this year. :/

Zombie Mom said...

Yeah Pumpkins!

Jason-v said...

Sadly all mine in my burn patch died.. however there is one in the front yard that has produced 2 nice size pie pumpkins!! Congreats on the find!!!

Poplar Hall said...

Hey Rot,
Isn't that a wonderful find!!! I have a pumpkin patch that has yet to show even what you have! I will hope for the best!

SmartLiLBtch said...

My patch has been a bit bare as well, but we do have 1 8 in pumpkin for sure and a couple of "hopefuls". I started hand pollinating last week. *crosses fingers* Happy Gardening!