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    Home » Musings

    The Giant Pumpkin

    Published by Pam Kessler | 113 words. · About 1 minute to read this article. -

    Do you remember my humongo front porch pumpkin from last year?

    giant pumpkin fall front porch decor

    Yeah, that one.

    giant pumpkin fall front porch decor

    The one that weighed 100 pounds and almost gave my husband and I hernias trying to get it up on the porch.

    giant pumpkin fall front porch decor

    When it was time to decorate the porch for Christmas last year, I tossed it into our garbage/junk/compost pile and forgot about it.

    Well, lo and behold we've had a case of immaculate conception.

    Or the seeds from last year grew.

    Take your pick.

    giant pumpkin fall front porch decor

    This one is about 24 inches tall right now and it still has growing time left.

    Who knew a pumpkin would grow from pumpkin seeds?

    No, I'm not a farmer. Thanks for asking.

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    1. Debra Oliver

      September 04, 2013 at 11:08 pm

      oh my gosh, Pam, you're hilarious!!! love this! please don't hurt yourself this year!!

    2. Shabby chic Sandy

      August 29, 2013 at 10:49 pm

      Love this story! Your pumpkin lives again. I am not a seed person either--I like to start with a plant. this is awesome though! Maybe I will try this next year 🙂 Rotting pumpkins here we come.

    3. Snooks

      August 29, 2013 at 7:21 pm

      I love it when this happens. We have had pumpkins and squash in our front flower bed before with the big question of how did that get there? but just went with it cause it was fun. This year I have a bunch of sunflowers growing as volunteers. Those seeds came from other sunflowers we had there before. What a great pumpkin you have.

      @ 3Beeze Homestead

    4. Vickie @ Ranger 911

      August 29, 2013 at 6:33 am

      It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! hehe

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