Pumpkin Roundup
October 15th, 2010 by John Wolfe
Just took the last pumpkin off the vine this morning and decided to snap a couple photos to close out my Halloween garden updates. The four pumpkins pictured were the strongest of the patch’s yield. There was a fifth pumpkin (taken off the vine in July), but I made the mistake of putting it in the fridge prior to letting it cure a bit and it’s since gotten moldy on me. Many others produced along the way, however, despite being pollinated, they never fully developed and eventually withered and rotted on the vine.
Overall, for trying to grow my gourds in a sand trap, I’m pretty happy with the turnout. Even though I loved the experience of growing pumpkins, in an effort to keep my schedule as free as possible for continuing to expand on both the site and haunt, I have plans to make the garden very basic next year. I’m probably going to go with corn and a pumpkin tree (it produces pumpkin-shaped peppers) from the seeds Camile sent to me.
