Oh Gourd!

This is what our garden looks like this year. It's still a learning experience. As in, we are learning not to put anything in the pumpkin family in our compost bin. It can't break down through our cold winter and by spring, we have seeds mixed in that we spread throughout our garden. We are calling this years garden "Our Mystery Garden".

Now, pumpkin plants in the beginning look a lot like zucchini, which looks like yellow squash, which looks like watermelon and cantaloupe. You get the idea. So, we aren't really sure what is growing, but we are thinking we might be able to open our very own pumpkin patch this year.

I took the kids to a pumpkin patch in October and they got 2 of those cute little pumpkins. They are too small to carve, so they usually get painted or stickers put on them. Well, 2 went into the compost bin and I think about 30 are now growing. Or is this something else that I'm unaware of? I'm just assuming it's the little pumpkins.

Notice it's in a pot. We didn't put it there. What was supposed to be an herb pot of cilantro and basil also has a corn stalk, tomato plant, cucmber and snapdragons (which I haven't planted in that pot for about 3 years).

And the big pumpkins have started growing. I think we have about 5 so far, pumpkins that is. The plants themselves look like there could be dozens.


We planted other things that are growing just fine, like these green beans.


We also have lots of tomato plants, but none are growing where we actually planted them. Go figure. David says next year, we should forgo seeds and just spread out our compost bin and see what we get.

We are either the worst gardeners in the world or we're really onto something.