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A Day in the Life of a Pumpkin Farmer

 
Last week, a beautiful female flower opened 7 feet out on Audrey's (my 995 Carter plant) main vine.  Not a male to be found in the patch.....  Disgusted, I cut the baby pumpkin off the vine but another cold day had really just begun.


Looking for love that was not to be found

After two weeks of cold windy overcast weather, the wind started whippin and gusting.  Every vine suffered shredded and lost leaves, some snapping off at the base of the stem.  Entire secondaries were pulled up, roots and all, and rolled on their ears.

That evening when the winds subsided, the birds came.  Like a bad Hitchcock movie, they attacked Audrey - digging up the roots at every leaf junction and snipping them off as snacks.

In the morning, I was looking at all the promise and fragrance of an open and willing female flower.  By evening , that promise was a shredded and distant memory.

This being a typical day for a pumpkin farmer, I didn't take it too badly.  On a bad day you lose the plants entirely.  I patched and propped up the battered plants, plugged one of the birds with a pellet gun and felt pretty good.

This morning, a new female flower opened ten feet out on Audrey's main vine.  As gorgeous and available  as the last one.  Two wild and crazy guy flowers popped open on Geneva Electric (922 Emmons) thirsty for some action.

Let's try this again.....
 

vince
best 831, 2001
zone 9, the pumpkin zone
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