{"id":252,"date":"2009-11-10T00:02:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T04:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2009-11-10T00:02:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T04:02:54","slug":"our-inadvertent-pumpkin-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/2009\/11\/10\/our-inadvertent-pumpkin-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Our inadvertent pumpkin patch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although you wouldn’t be able to tell by looking at it–in fact, you might be tempted to conclude the opposite–I really do want there to be a recognizable garden someday in what can only honestly be called our yard. I dream about growing flowers and vegetables, and a rain garden and maybe blueberries and an apple tree. But, for a variety of reasons, I haven’t done anything and can barely keep up with mowing and controlling the weeds.<\/p>\n

But it turns out you can grow things using the lackadaisical approach, and in our case, it’s pumpkins.<\/p>\n

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This is how the pumpkin plant looked in September.<\/p>\n

The truly amazing bit is that I didn’t ever plant any pumpkin seeds. The pumpkin vine grew out of a side vent in our compost bin, presumably from a pumpkin seed that germinated instead of decomposing while inside the bin.<\/p>\n

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Since I didn’t plant these, I don’t actually know which variety of pumpkin they are, but I presume they are the inedible jack-o-lantern type from Halloween 2008. As with everything else in the yard, I didn’t tend to these, so they didn’t grow nearly as large as a proper jack-0-lantern would. Indeed, the pumpkins feel solid, not hollow.<\/p>\n

I “harvested” them recently, although too late to be a part of our Halloween decorations. But, for the record, here is our garden output 2009:<\/p>\n

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