At the field this year 4 hills of pumpkins and gourds were planted. With the leftover seeds my cousin and I threw a few into the brush pile to see if they would grow.
Today after work I headed in and we both went to the field to pick them all. I had been waiting to pick them until we were going to get a hard frost to let them mature as much as possible. We are supposed to get that frost the next couple of nights, so taking advantage of the nice weather to get them out of the field.
The plants that were grown in the garden all did terrible and only grew about 30 small gourds between them. They were pretty disappointing. The plants that grew in the brush pile took over everything and just went nuts. We ended up getting 4 bushels of ripe gourds as well as 7 large pumpkins. To pick the gourds I took my new snips I got for the garlic to cut them all off the vine. The pumpkins were left in there until they ripen up a little more. They aren’t ready yet and I would like to see them turn orange on the vine if possible. There are also 8 medium sized pumpkins in with the horses where a seed or 2 was dropped. They have also done well; horses eat the grass and weeds and leave the pumpkins alone.
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