BTW - we grew pumpkins once, on accident. It was fairly easy.

1) Let a pie pumpkin rot outside in your “garden” area.
2) Decide to just bury it because it will be good fertilizer for the garden, you know…like composting.
3) Stand with your mouth gaping open when, 2 weeks later, you see a concentrated area of sprouting plants and realize it’s ALL the seeds from the pumpkin that you buried.

Easy as PIE.

We watered for a while - but then stopped once summer got here b/c it was too hot anyway and they all eventually died. But it’s kind of our thing around here. Goes like this, “Hey…this has a seed! Let’s plant it and see what happens!!”

We grew a mango tree like that once. It died as well, eventually. But it was cool - pretty hardy little tree!!

Watermelon like mounds too…. but it isn’t necessary to grow pumpkins and melon this way–

Have you ever read Farmer Boy? ….the boys want to try growing a milk fed pumpkin and enter into the fair! HAHA!!