My first attempt at growing a pumpkin
If you haven’t read part 1 or Part 2, then you may want to so you know what I’m going on about. If you have, thank you for sticking around, this is where things actually get exciting 🤣
So, as you know, my first little pumpkin babies flower fell off before the Internet told me it would, and I was so worried that she had stopped growing. She hadn’t! then I worked out that there was a large chance she wouldn’t be ready for Halloween, but I didn’t care because she was my baby, and just watching her grow was enough to make me happy.
I also had a second little queen growing, who also probably wouldn’t be ready for Halloween, but again, I was just happy to watch her grow. I then realised that due to planting them so late, there was probably no chance of having a pumpkin ready for Halloween. I know better for next year now, so it’s not a fail in any way.
During one of my daily sits next to the pumpkins, you know, to watch them grow 🤣 I noticed a double male flower getting ready to open, and so the next morning, I ran out to see him in all his glory and he did not disappoint! What a stunning flower he was!
As the days seemed to fly past, the 2 little pumpkins kept getting bigger and bigger, and then one day, I noticed a third one growing that had been pollinated by the bees still buzzing around the plants.
This brings me to today. It is October 2nd, 2023, and I was planning to leave this post as a draft until my first was ready to be cut off, but we have more females still opening, and I’m shocked so I wanted to post this today so that my next pumpkin patch post is when it’s all dried and shrivelled so I can post an update on them all as my fiancĂ© pollinated one of the 2 females that opened today and I’m going to use them as an experiment.
The Mum Behind The Blakens 