Pumpkin plants take over the world

They sure are growing! They sure have spread! This is, of course, the amateur gardener's classic mistake, but even knowing that, we couldn't help ourselves. Sure, the seed packets had instructions on the back and yes, they might have said something about thinning the seedlings to 2 feet apart that we may have disregarded... mostly.

By now the plants have filled in the spaces between rows, to say nothing of filling in spaces between the individual plants. At this point the whole thing is a mass of flowers. (Thank goodness we didn't grow zucchini! We'd be out on the roadside trying to give them away by now.)

I was looking online for pumpkin-growing advice and found incomprehensible stuff about granular fertilizers, organic matter, foliar fertilizers, good soil tilth... There was also an alarming discussion about male and female flowers and manual pollination, making me think we might have a long weekend ahead of us.

But not to worry. Mark has it all under control. Bees have been spotted. Fertilizing has happened. Pollination is accomplished.

I obviously don't have enough to do.