On Sunday, December 29, 2019 at 12:32:39 PM UTC-6, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 10:30:47 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >On 2019-12-29 9:52 a.m., wrote:
> >>
> >
> >> My wife's sons had two giant pumpkins ot their front entrance as
> >> decorations. They were going to trash them but my wife said she'd
> >> take them for deer food. Yesterday I hacked up two forty pound
> >> pumpkins and we tossed them out in the yard. This morning most was
> >> gone but still some for tonight. Would have been a shame to toss them
> >> in the trash when the critters could enjoy them... we saved some seeds
> >> for planting.
> >
> >My wife likes to put pumpkins on the porch for Thanksgiving decorations.
> > Bear in mind that our Thanksgiving is around mid October. They freeze
> >and thaw a few times before they are removed. Some of them have turned
> >pretty mushy by that time so we stopped using the really big ones. They
> >are too hard to deal with when they go soft. I take them around to the
> >other side and drop them along the edge of our property and the critters
> >get to eat them there. Occasionally a pumpkin plant will appear the next
> >year.
> >
> >
> >My wife also likes to use small gourds for interior decorating. Years
> >ago we started tossing them into the composter when the decorations
> >changed, and every year we get gourds growing there so we never have to
> >buy new ones.
> >
> Those volunteer squash are better than anything I tried to grow. They
> did very well on the compost pile
> Janet US

Mother Gaia is most gracious at times. I had a volunteer cantaloupe this Summer in my front garden beds, and one grew right on a stack of paver stones I keep out front on the brickwork around the front garden beds. And like you both say, it's from the cantaloupe seeds I put In the compost!

Thanks Mother Gaia! :-)

John Kuthe...