Our Pumpkin Plant

In moving into an old house you get to spend the first year, at least, trying to figure out what plants are growing around your yard. Are they weeds? Are they flowers? We have discovered a plethora of plants, some good and some bad (quite a lot of bad) growing in various places around our yard.

At the first of the summer I noticed a few little plants pop up in my front flower bed. I recognized the leaves as some kind of squash or cucumber so, being the very practical person that I am, I decided to let it grow to see if I could get some home-grown produce from the plant. There were loads of blossoms, but nothing was growing from the blossoms and I almost tore the whole thing out a couple of times. Then one day we finally noticed that a pumpkin was starting to form - we had a pumpkin plant!I have to admit that I was a little disappointed. I was really hoping for a cucumber plant to eat, but we decided that the kids would like it and so we let it grow. It is quite a sight, this huge plant growing right by our front steps, but we don't have too many visitors and who really cares anyway?
Well, a couple of days ago we were looking at the nicely growing pumpkins on our plant when Bump discovered a beautiful orange pumpkin growing under our front porch! Yup, our biggest pumpkin is under the porch, behind the lattice where we really can't get to it without tearing off a large section of lattice. What do you do? If we let it stay there it will rot and go to seed and then I will be forever fighting pumpkins in my front flower bed.

I have to laugh, but it is a dilemma. . .what would you do?