Volunteers

Its a spaghetti squash, no its a watermelon, no its a pumpkin!!! This was the progression of a volunteer plant that came up in our compost pile. I have never grown pumpkins before so I had no idea that they start out yellow, then turn green, then orange. Its a nice surpirse and I don't have to buy any this year.

Of course where there is squash there is squash bugs and we lost a couple pumpkins. I hate those bugs; nothing except stomping them will eliminate them. We had alot of squash bugs this year.

The pumpkins grew from the seeds of the ones my boys carved last October. They had a good time throwing the seeds at each other. Which is why we also have a vine next to the front porch.