Fertile Fridays: Pumpkins on the Run
Oh my. Apparently, the pumpkins really like the sunshine and occasionally bouts of heavy rain. In the past week, the leaves have gone from what I thought was a good size to enormous and they have extended vine fingers into my lawn … with curly-ques that are wrapping around whatever they can reach. It’s sort of like Little Shop of Horrors, without the creepy talking plant.
Meanwhile, I picked a handful of ripe sungold tomatoes today and saw several more that will ripen in a few days time. The New Girls are stubbornly green still. So much for being an “early” tomato.
I also harvested three of the green peppers, which I am going to chop and use very soon.
The Brussels sprouts are growing, growing, growing. Of the three stalks I planted, one is quickly developing lovely sprouts and the other two are coming at varying paces. I guess that means three Brussels sprouts harvests for me. Yay!
Strangely though, the carrots … which had shown early signs of growing, have all but disappeared. I am not sure how long I will wait before replanting, but that does seem like the only sensible thing to do if the carrots don’t sprout soon.
Category: garden
The weather seems to have prompted everything to wake up out of a stupor and get going here too. Your Brussels sprouts, they look great, and so quickly too. One of my fav veg. Odd on the carrots. I didn’t plant any earlier, but was thinking of trying a bit as a fall/late fall crop if there is still time to ge them in the ground.
The plants look so beautiful!! Aside from the promise of produce!
Your garden looks fantastic! I should have you come down for the weekend and start working on mine!
Ooh just reading this makes me so excited for pumpkin season! I can’t wait for pies, bars and pumpkin cream cheese
Well it looks like instead of the usual kid enterprise of lemonade stands, Will can start a pick-your-own pumpkin patch