Thursday, August 20, 2015

Allie Pleiter on pop-up pumpkins!

It's almost here...pumpkin everything season.  Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin scented lotion, air freshener, candles, even hand sanitizer.  If it exists, evidently someone can make it pumpkin-flavored or pumpkin-scented.

This is a good thing.  I love pumpkin.  Even the hand santizer.

This year, however, the pumpkins got very personal.  In fact, they invaded.  Without warning, permission, or even our knowledge!

This thing started growing in our dormant garden--as in the garden we meant to plant but never did.  It had pretty speckled leaves...





Then it had lovely yellow blossoms...




It spread faster than gossip...




Before we knew it, we had little green globes.  Watermelon?  Squash?  No one knew, until the little green globes got a whole lot bigger and started to look like...pumpkins.

Pumpkins!  We grew pumpkins--without even trying!

You have to know what a horrendous gardener I am to appreciate the seredipity of this.  Pleiters, growing pumpkins?  A Pop-up Pleiter Pumpkin Patch?   It's just too splendid.  I smile every time I walk past it.

Now, if we could just keep any critters from snacking on our new treasures.  Anyone got any tips for Pleiter Pop-up Pumpkin Protection?

6 comments:

Jill Weatherholt said...

This is great, Allie! Although I'm not a fan of pumpkin pie, I do love the pumpkin scented candles. Enjoy the pumpkin patch!

Pamela Tracy said...

When I was in third grade, my teacher gave me a packet of pumpkin seeds. I basically scattered them in the backyard and forgot about them. Didn't tell my parents what I'd done.

Same thing happened! LOL

Jackie Smith said...

I like anything pumpkin....pie, muffins, and candles! Enjoy your patch!

Jennifer said...

You'll probably have to fence it in and check out the Internet on how best to protect your pumpkin patch. That is so funny about the mysterious plants until they reveled themselves.

jcp said...

Enjoy and collect recipes now

Allie Pleiter said...

Thanks, everyone. They're fenced in and we are hoping all three pumpkins make it to Halloween. Such surprising fun!