Garden on Corliss Homestead Journal

That's funny, I can't always get them to grow either, I think maybe the whispy bits which appear are fragile and need protection from bigger plants sometimes until they can get bigger and featherier?  I've been more fortunate with carrots, but yeah they can be hit and miss.  Hopefully next year you can neglect them again and duplicate this success.

Uhh... I might of made a planting mistake.

My pumpkins are doing good. Too good. The vines have filled the entire pumpkin patch and are still spreading. I had an eight foot buffer zone of wood chips between the patch and my house. HAD.  The vines are already touching my house! I have vines extending into my flower gardens and my pollinator gardens. I have pumpkin leaves reaching up about hip height! Intermixed between these pumpkin vines are watermelon vines filling in the gaps to the point I can barely walk through the growing patch.

This is a most excellent problem. I can't wait to see what I get in the fall.

I can't help but smile like a fool every time I look at my pumpkin patch. The happiness this mess of vines brings me is priceless. There have been a couple losses at the edges of the mass as deer smash and nibble immature fruit but deep in the leaves is growth. While I did not plan to have the patch reach into my flowering spaces, it isn't the end of the world. I will just have to plan better next year!

Timothy Norton wrote:I can't help but smile like a fool every time I look at my pumpkin patch. The happiness this mess of vines brings me is priceless. There have been a couple losses at the edges of the mass as deer smash and nibble immature fruit but deep in the leaves is growth. While I did not plan to have the patch reach into my flowering spaces, it isn't the end of the world. I will just have to plan better next year!

Lovely. Thanks for letting me know this exists. I'll cruise around and see what I can see. I love these long-term gardening diaries.