What did you do in your garden today?

[flowerbug]

i know that feeling, i start the day with the intentions to do things on my list and then Mom says something and then i'm sidetracked and may never get anything at all done that i might have planned. i try not to get irked about it but other times when i do warn Mom that i do have plans and she forgets and then schedules something and then ... *wry grin*

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Whew, got that finished then created a spot to plant a new to me squash/pumpkin variety. It's called Seminole Pumpkin. I'm still not sure if it's actually a pumpkin or a squash. Whatever it is - I'm giving it a try.

The Incredible Seminole Pumpkin

Climbing through the canopies of my apple trees, clambering over the fences and trailing across the lawn, there is a “volunteer” pumpkin that reseeds itself year after year. Although other squash and pumpkins cross-pollinate readily when grown in close proximity—producing inferior and sometimes...

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[flowerbug]

pumpkins are considered a winter squash, but to me they are just different forms of the same basic plant.

around here i planted only certain kinds of squash (buttercup not butternut as i don't really like butternut in comparison to buttercup) hoping they'd not cross, but someone else around here must have been growing pumpkins because within a few years i had orange variants that popped up in the buttercup plants and they weren't as good nor did they store as long.