All summer long we have been watching the vine grow, orange flowers bloom, and a little green pumpkin start to grow, then watched it fall off and turn brown. The vine grew and grew all summer and the flowers were coming by the handfuls, but no little pumpkins.
Then came Sept 30th. I was talking to my sister Lisa in Idaho on the phone. It was a beautiful warm fall day, so I was sitting outside talking to her. She was telling me about their pumpkins that her kids grew this summer. I thought I should go check on ours to see if the vine had made it to the front of the house.
That was when I saw this...
Just weeks earlier we had looked all over the vine, but hadn't seen any pumpkins. But there it was hidden underneath some hostas that had started to die back from the cooler nights.
That afternoon when Ammon got home from school I told him I had a surprise for him after he got his chores done. He hurried and got everything done so that he could find out the surprise. He was so excited to see that he had indeed grown a pumpkin. It was mostly orange with some green streaks on it.
The vine took off this summer. We had to keep pushing it back into the planter box so we could mow around it. It wound it's way around the fireplace and started heading towards the front yard, but stopped just short of turning the front corner of the house. The other end went towards the back yard. It caught hold of the bush on that side of the yard and grew up into the bush. It's really pretty to see the orange pumpkin flowers blooming amid the leaves in the bush.
Today we checked on it and it was completely orange and ready to be cut off the vine. Ammon finished up his raking real quick so that he could cut it off. What excitement there was for Ammon to be holding his very 1st homegrown pumpkin!!
He set it with the pumpkins they picked out last week. It looks so small compared to the others, but to him it's the greatest thing!
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