At the beginning of the year, or some time around then, one of my bosses friends brought us giant pumpkin seeds from his 700+ pound pumpkin from last year. There were twenty in all and we split them between three of us. Of course my boss always has to have a competition of some sort so we bet that we each would get the biggest pumpkin out of the bunch. I started growing mine in little pots in the house and they did great. I then transferred them to a nice spot (or what I thought was a nice spot) in my front yard when they got too big for their pots. That was around May. There were seven in all and I have been struggling to get them to continue to grow. I lost three of them to some animal and the other four really have not grown. I was out marketing with my boss today and he told me that one of his plants is huge and he has two pumpkins. I had been wondering if my plants were far behind the growth curve and that confirmed that they were. I actually had not looked at them since last weekend because it has been raining every evening and into most mornings so I did not need to go and water them. I looked at them when I got home today and they are not doing well at all. They look the same as the last time I saw them and another one has been eaten. I don’t think there is any rescuing them. I did talk to my boss about what we did differently and his are in a raised garden area. He said the soil was imported and he had been adding ashes from his fireplaces all winter. So, I don’t know what I am going to do. Maybe I will pull them back out of the ground and try putting them back into a pot with just potting soil this weekend. I guess I am not going to win the “bet”.
P.S. The third person has since left the company so we have no clue how well hers are doing.
