Pumpkins Galore

I just wanted to post a short update to tally the amount of active pumpkins. After another round of fish emulsion and plenty of water, pumpkins are really starting to pop up all over the patch. I did a quick count today and the patch has roughly 56 pumpkins. Most of them are Little October pumpkins by Botanical Interests, roughly 60%, but I’m still very happy with the progress!

One of my large (carving variety) pumpkins is actually starting to mature and I’m pretty sure that I’ll be taking it off of the vine in the next week or two. I never thought I’d have a matured pumpkin in the middle of July, but I guess this one was eager to either get eaten, carved or photographed. Or maybe all of the above!

The two Atlantic varieties are complete opposites. One’s leaf growth seems stunted even though the fruit is huge and the other one just got it’s fruit and the leaf growth is out of control. I’m looking forward to growing a hundred pound pumpkin! We’ll see how it goes! Greg says that he’ll be impressed if I do, but he’s also the one that said that I shouldn’t get my hopes up when I told him I planned on growing 100+ pumpkins this year! We’ll see Greg!

As you can see from the above time-lapse, the patch is really starting to fill in! I can still get in there, but plants are starting to touch and grow on top of each other! I suppose that’s a good thing, but we’ll see how well they do competing for real estate.