I ran into the house few minutes ago. “Come see! Come see! Better put on shoes, it’s damp out.”
Fabulous hubby, iDJ, didn’t stop for shoes but did grab his iPhone.
“It’s over here, in the corner, you probably won’t get a picture,” says I.
I showed him a gourd I’ve managed to grow. As he was taking a pic, I was blathering away about how I didn’t know if it was a pumpkin or a courgette (zucchini). I lose track of these things, he knows well. I also was telling him how I figured out how to stop gourds from rotting on the vine – it’s called blossom-end rot and if you just manage to keep an eye out for baby fruit after the bloom has faded, you can scrape off the mushy flower with a fingernail and voila! it doesn’t get all icky and decide to die. Hey, I had to Google that one, it was killin me to have a fruit and then, suddenly, a ball of mush.
It’s still small and unidentifiable – I’m guessing it’s a courgette based on two things – I think that’s what I planted there, and pumpkin usually comes from the vine rather than right at the heart of the plant.
Look at all the other female flower ready to bloom! I might have more, yet – and there is another small one at the back that you can’t see.
Wish me luck!
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Any chance it will turn out to be a magic gourd? Might know someone who’d be interested if it does 🙂
Who knows? I was supposedly the magician but I get distracted easily.
Looks courgetty to me. But then I let Talks-To-Cheese handle all the garden issues.
I would so love to meet you, if and when I come to visit Socks. I don’t want to meet your talks-to-cheese, but I would LOVE to see your reaction to meeting mine! I think he would be hard-pressed to behave and not try to make you like his music, and I would also like to see him get that look of epiphany upon hearing music older than The Troubles. This written while listening to some rap group he adores… Sigh.
Well now, geographically where are you when you would visit Socks?
She’s in Walkersville, MD- wherever that is! We’ve been bandying about coming over next summer – see Socks & Co, meet a friend from NYC I’ve never met in person, and then go down to SC to see my sister. Not sure if we’ll try to fit Arkansas in there, that’s a lot of time on the road. But we’d be a night or two in your general neighbourhood. Much closer than now in any case!
Oh right, I remember you mentioning Walkersville! Well if you were bound from there to South Carolina you would be forced to pass very close by here, I’d think.
I know the pumpkins start out green, but it does seem to have zucchini-type skin pattern
I think we have a consensus of ‘I got no idea, but it looks like a zuch’ going on here! I’m just happy I ain’t killed it yet.
Whoop! Well done! And I love the green.
It was flash-less even though I thought it was too dark and too small for a pic. I hope wee what-ever-it-is gets to live a while longer. And mebbe I get to eat it!
Haha….lovely. I’m quite certain it’s not a pumpkin. Pumpkins are glabrous 🙂 the ones in Uganda, at least.
Good point! This is hairy. I lost the little one I’d said wasn’t in the photo! Oh well.
woo hoo! The latest courgette in Irish history? Lovely round one by the looks of things. Enjoy 🙂
Goodluck! Looks courgette to me! Yum! Courgettes!
I’m not really good at gardening, even though I grew up in the country. But to me it definitely looks like a zucchini. The color and texture of the fruit, the shape and textures of leaves and stems. But I’ve never seen a pumpkin plant, so I cannot compare.
Not sure why it took this shape though. As I remember, they normally have an elongated shape even when they are still small and fresh.
Only time will tell what it is. Let us know by then.
Lucky you can take care of your garden right now. Here at this time of the year, people are rushing to their garden to pick anything left before it freezes.
No worry about freezing yet. But the sun is already so low mornings and eves that it doesn’t peek over the 6ft wall. I didn’t expect much, I planted really late.
Great picture. It really is beautiful and there is something so thrilling about growing something in the garden.
Had another look tonight, she’s still alive! I might have a few more on other plants, if the damn weather holds up. Har.
Something fuzzy this way comes!
Good luck!