....of a Pumpkin.

Hello Y'all!

This year, my boyfriend and I decided to grow a pumpkin. We went to the store, planted some seeds and waited for all of our pumpkins to grow. We were so excited and thought that our porch would turn into a pumpkin patch, full of plump orange pumpkins.....but that's not exactly how it happened. The vines began to grow and flowers bloomed, but within a few days of bloom, the bright orange flowers shriveled up and fell off. So we did the only reasonable thing, Googled "How to grow pumpkins". Surprisingly there are a lot of pumpkin growers out there who blog about their orange friends. We learned that pumpkin plants bloom male and female flowers and that we would have to self pollinate our flowers because we did not have a large bee population to naturally pollinate them. So we got out some Q-tips and got to pollinating! While it was a little weird at first, you get the hang of it ;) And guess what?! IT WORKED!

We grew one baby Pumpkin!

Pumpky at 45 days old

All grown up!

Finally, this past weekend we picked our little guy and carved him! :) He now lights up our porch and I can't wait for Trick-or-Treaters to see him!

-Star Olivia