future jack-o-lanterns

We have a pumpkin plant that has randomly decide to grow in my front flower bed. I am pretty sure that is wash into the flower bed from last year when we cut our pumpkins for halloween. At the beginning of the summer we notice about an 8 in long vine starting to grow. Well that vine is now about 40 feet long with more vines coming out of it in all directions. When I took these pictures about 10 days ago we had one pumpkin that was about 2 inches and growing, the next morning when I checked on it, it was covered in black fuzz and fell off the vine. Oh well. I did learn there are two different kinds of flowers on the pumpkin vine the female flowers have a beginning of a pumpkin at the bottom of them and the males do not (the male flowers only last one day.)

Male pumpkin plant flower

Female pumpkin plant flower

Sadly this pumpkin did not make it!



This vine is even longer now!!!