Now, maybe it doesn't look like much, but this is the extent of our pumpkin patch--a volunteer, at that! We've no idea what kind of pumpkin it is, since we had four varieties stacked on the front porch last year and I don't recall which ones decomposed in the blue pot (that later was dumped onto the ground beside the porch). Also, I'm not actually sure that we'll have a pumpkin at all, since there is only one vine (I don't know if cross-pollination is necessary for pumpkins?), and the blossoms are crazy delicate! Two weeks ago after the mowing guys apparently got too close, two blossoms just fell off. Saturday, I knocked another one loose just by shifting the vine. Now I'm trying not to get too close or breathe too hard on the darn thing!
Do you have any surprise "volunteer" plants in your yard?
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i don't think there has to be more than one plant. we had volunteer plants galore this year - MANY tomato plants of different kinds, basil, a spaghetti squash plant (!!), and I can't remember what else. Oh yeah, volunteer snap dragons in the front, which are the spawns of last year's volunteers. it was a year of volunteers :)
I don't think there has to be more than one plant either. I do know that I have always been told not to touch the vines or the pumpkin once it starts to grow. And they need lots of water, like an every other day soak:p)
Thanks so much you guys! I know that the flowers have been falling off after moving them, so that definitely makes sense. And it's hardly been watered at all (that's not really our strong suit), so maybe I need to add that to the schedule!
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