Thursday, October 13, 2011

October Pumpkins in the desert - believe it or not!

Bringing in a summer pumpkin crop is quite possibly the most gratifying accomplishment in my Arizona Victory Gardening career. I've got about 8 sugar babies, and about 7 jack o lanterns getting fat and orange right now!

A nice fellow was driving by on his bike the other day while I was watering, and he stopped and chatted for a bit. He was a gardener too, and he didn't even know it was possible to grow pumkins in Phoenix!



Arizona sugar baby pumpkin

Sugar Baby

That was my first sugar baby, matured in late Sept, from a mid June planting.







Immature sugar baby








Immature jack o lantern



The pics are a couple weeks old, showing them maturing nicely but still green. Most of them are orange now, and the vines are dying off (I'll try to update pics soon).





The coolest part of growing pumpkins is the beautiful huge orange flowers in morning, which always attract swarms of honey bees.




bee in pumpkin flower

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