Gardener's Delight.

I'm not particularity good at spelling, or manual labor, but one thing I am good at is random knowledge.  I know facts about just about anything!  Did you know cats eat grass when their stomach's are upset because it makes them throw up?  Not impressive?

I do know a lot of gardening facts, which sometimes leads people to think I'm a better gardener than I really am.  Whoopsie!  For example, each flowering pumpkin vine must be fertilized by a bee, to be able to produce a pumpkin.  Not each flower will become fertilized, so not each flower produces a veggie.  Most people think each flower should have a growing punkin'.  

Moral of the story is, this year I planted a small, manageable garden not expecting much.  I planted two tomato plants, two cayanne pepper plants, and three watermelon plants.  Each were planted from seedlings, the tomatoes and watermelon were gifted by Eric's mom, and the peppers were a gift from a friend.  Here's the humble beginnings: (excuse the instagram photos)

After a lot of watering, in my heels of course:

Things really started to take off:

These watermelon vines were getting eerily large! And look we have a red tomato!

The vines just kept growing, at which point we realized maybe these weren't watermelons.  After a little investigation, it was confirmed, these were pumpkins!   Not the far juicier, yummy veggie, but its crisper cousin-the pumpkin!

The cayennes start turning red: 

I hung them to dry in the kitchen for a little fun:

We now have 4 pumpkins, two large and two babies.  We wont even need to buy some for this holiday season, we take pumpkin carving very seriously!  Maybe I really am a great garden lady!