10/02/2026
WE HAVE PUMPKINS! 🎃 However, once again, I have good news and bad news.
The good news is, we officially have pumpkins growing on our vines! I hand-pollinated a TON of flowers a few weeks ago, and it looks like all that work actually paid off! 🙌🏼
The bad news is… I have absolutely no idea what variety these are, but they are definitely NOT what I planted. 😭😭 Growing pumpkins in Florida can be tricky, so I did a ton of research and specifically chose mini pumpkin varieties that I thought would do well here. Unfortunately, it looks like the wrong seeds somehow ended up in the packets I purchased because, as you can clearly see, these are most definitely not mini pumpkins.
I did have a slight mental breakdown because I have worked SO hard on these dang squashes and was so excited to have little pumpkins at the farm stand this fall. Unfortunately, that probably won’t be happening this year. BUT I’m putting my negativity aside and celebrating the fact that WE GREW PUMPKINS! 🥹🎃 Miley keeps calling them watermelons, which cracks me up. 🤣🍉
So stay tuned to see if these guys make it over the next few weeks, and I guess to find out what it is I am growing in my back yard LOL