My pumpkins are on their way
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382056)
Rockingham, Australia
December 29, 2016 4:36am CST
Some weeks ago I planted some butternut pumpkin seedlings in one of our 'tank' garden beds. I think these are called butternut squash in America. There is an automatic watering system so I don't always go out there to check on the plants. Then we went away for four days over Christmas. And look what I've come home to!
One plant in particular is going berserk. I hope it doesn't get into the guttering or it might devour the whole house. Hopefully the fruit won't be quite as big as those big leaves. Are you growing any vegetables?
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@allknowing (153530)
• India
29 Dec 16
Here it is a sure case of the pot that is not watched boils (lol) That creeper is sure going places
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
29 Dec 16
It certainly seems like it is yes. I can´t grow things like that but the small pines I have planted I have hardly every watched and they have taken off overnight too.
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@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Dec 16
@lovinangelsinstead21 It's funny isn't it? They must get their roots down to water or something and away they go.
@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
29 Dec 16
I remember I plant a squash too in our front yard. I did not know it crawls fast and occupies a lot of space. They are easy to grow.
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@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
29 Dec 16
@JudyEv Yes, it's one of my favorite vegetables. I like it with coconut milk
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@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Dec 16
@averygirl72 I've never tried it with coconut milk. Do you cook the pumpkin in it? Or mash it and add the milk?
@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Dec 16
Yes, they are easy to grow and don't they spread a long way? Do you like them to eat?
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
29 Dec 16
all my food including vegetables comes from shops
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
29 Dec 16
@JudyEv we have a small communal garden between 6 apartment flats - just lawn and patio - no balcony
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@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Dec 16
@arthurchappell So you can't even grow stuff in pots. We don't grow many vegetables. The stuff in the shops is local, fresh and reasonably priced and we're away quite a bit so we don't bother with too many vegetables but pumpkins are like Herc - easy-care and low maintenance. :)
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
29 Dec 16
Can't grow anything now - not until March (lettuce, peas, things like that)
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
29 Dec 16
@JudyEv We are waterers...our little garden (in season) gets watered daily. Consistency is the important thing with watering. But in a shallow garden like our raised bed it dries out daily in the summer heat so there were days he had to water twice a day.
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@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Dec 16
@AbbyGreenhill Pot plants can dry out quickly too can't they?
@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Dec 16
Pumpkins are nice and easy here - as long as you have the water for them.
@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
29 Dec 16
We have tried many times to grow any type of melon. Never had any success, until I once threw a farm market pumpkin in the compost pile. Lo and behold the next summer I had 4 pumpkins, go figure.
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@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 17
@fishtiger58 I would think from scraps thrown to the chooks (chickens).
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Dec 16
@JudyEv I wonder how it got there?
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@kevin1877uk (36987)
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30 Dec 16
No real garden to grow veg here, my housemates have a few flowers in the small garden.
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@Tina30219 (82978)
• Onaway, Michigan
30 Dec 16
Looks good. Not growing anything here it is winter and we have snow on the ground.
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@Tina30219 (82978)
• Onaway, Michigan
30 Dec 16
@JudyEv It surd is. But hopefully this summer we might grow a few things depends on what wd will be doing
@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Dec 16
I guess it's pretty hard to grow stuff when there is snow on the ground.
@supercalifredge (606)
• United States
29 Dec 16
I wish! I want to grow some vegetables but I don't think my dorm mom would like that ;)
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@supercalifredge (606)
• United States
30 Dec 16
@JudyEv I hope so! Hopefuy sooner rather than later...
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
29 Dec 16
Looks like you are going to have a good crop this year.
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@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Dec 16
Thanks. I like growing pumpkins. They take very little care.
@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
1 Jan 17
That's pumpkins. I just about forget they are there.
@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Dec 16
We have leaping kangaroos but so far they haven't bothered the pumpkins. The first year we grew them they started to each the fruit and I had to cover each one up. The raised beds are good for me as I have to be careful with my back. Gardening isn't the best for it.
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@Marilynda1225 (91086)
• United States
30 Dec 16
I love butternut squash. Do you have a favorite way to make it?
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@JudyEv (382056)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jan 17
I love pumpkin soup and roast pumpkin. That's about the only ways we use it.
@teamfreak16 (43593)
• Denver, Colorado
29 Dec 16
Our neighbor planted some snow peas and corn in our flower beds this summer. They turned out pretty good.
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@jyotiu28jul (403)
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30 Dec 16
I am very fond of plantation...all kind of. Vegetable, flowering plants an ornamentals too....I feel super happy (cant describe the feeling) seeing a new bud or flower or growing vegetable.IT makes my day.
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