It's all about the pumpkins...

Max has this thing about agriculture and growing seeds from any source he consumes or finds.  We have had our share of mystery shoots around here.  Our latest "what is it" began to grow in Mary's Garden.  How it got there is any body's guess.  At first it looked really cool, these pretty green leaves surrounding her but, the plant was quickly growing too large for the area.  Max decided to move it and took "bets" as to what kind of vegetable or fruit it was. 

Anyhow, there were guesses to what it was for several weeks.  Once the plant began to "vine" out and Max found something growing, the kids just got really excited.  Care to take a peek...

At this point it's pretty obvious that we are going a large variety of a

Cucurbita pepo or Cucurbita mixta

in layman's terms, a PUMPKIN

She is a beaut eh, no doubt about it. 

Here though lies my "pumpkin dilemma".  Max had already salvaged the seeds from a sweet pumpkin we had last fall.  He planted, watered, and took care of his little seeds until a good portion of them sprouted.  Well guess what we had growing in our vegetable garden? 

Any guesses?

Yep, a rather large amount, perhaps a good 30 sweet pumpkin plants seedlings.  I like pumpkins sure, but, not enough to cover our backyard with these large plants.  So, Max had to decide what to do.  Does he just choose a few of the plants to grow to maturity.  Does he toss the rest his "experiment" into the trash?  Does he give them away?  What does he do?

My little guy did the obvious thing.

He put them on Craig's List

Lucy helped with the sign and made a poster for email notification of the sale.  He hasn't done too bad of a job either.  Due to inflation prices did go up a bit from .50 to a $1.00 a plant.  But, hey water isn't cheap around here.

Here is what is left for him to sell....

Any takers?