A Surprise Harvest

Last year a good friend of ours had the cutest little pumpkins for us to decorate at her sons birthday party. The kids thought it was great fun and they set them out on the front porch for decoration. Well, they sat there a LONG time, in fact they set there well into the winter. At some point Damian decided they weren't pretty anymore and dumped them into the flowerbed between the sidewalk and the garage. We hope to do some landscaping there yet this fall, but to this point nothing grows there but weeds. Anyway, this Spring as the weeds started to grow up, Damian went out to spray them and noticed this growing. He told me it looked like a pumpkin vine, so we left it to see what would happen. As we got some rain and sunshine our little vine began to grow...
and

GROW

and

GROW...



Eventually our 'little' pumpkin vine grew all along the flowerbed and around the corner. This doesn't even depict it in it's full glory, before I finally had had enough the vine had covered the sidewalk and grown out into the yard! When I mowed over the weekend I sent the kids out to bring in the harvest and cut out the vine. (They thought this was GREAT FUN because they got to haul the vines out to the burn pile with Garrett's 4 wheeler.)




Aren't these the cutest little pumpkins ever?? I don't know why we got the green, bumpy gourds too, but Garrett thinks they are really cool. Since our Accidental Garden turned out so well, we might try the REAL THING next year!