[Image] I saw these giant pumpkin seeds in the store and couldn't resist. Wouldn't it be fun to try and grow huge pumpkins? I posed the challenge to our local 4-H club. Who would like to participate in a pumpkin growing contest?

Desert Girl eagerly accepted. Perhaps it was because we had just listened to an audiobook, Sweet Home Alaska, that included a pumpkin-growing contest. She named her two pumpkins Laura and Almonzo, the same as the heroine in the story. Almonzo was also the name of the pumpkin in Farmer Boy.
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 It didn't take long for the pumpkins to sprout. And a volunteer bean plant, too.
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Then it came time to move them to the garden.
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Unfortunately the insects haven't been kind. Would the pumpkin plants even make it? We weren't sure.
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Fast forward a week or so, and they are growing well. We're looking forward to flowers next! [Image]