Last seasons pumpkins are a matter of record..Blogs and suchlike from here at least. We had finally decided that there weren’t going to be any more pumpkins on the old vines..there were flowers here and there, but not even pollinating them did the trick anymore, so..they got the chop. Vines pulled out of the garden, off the lawn; which got a tidy up, fertiliser, a prune/haircut, I attempted to return it to its former..prepumpkin glory that is. Didn’t work all that well, though. Sigh. It gradually made a comeback, but it took a while. The Billisaurus had a fit of the vapours..anyway, there was compost of a surplus kind, and it ponged. Needed to have something done with it, so it got put in various gardens and pot plants. New crop of pumpkins came up. Seem to remember this happening before. Anyway, this time, they weren’t allowed to take over the back yard. Oh no, so we got a few largish pots, and did some transplanting…But to the front lawn instead. So now, we have one pumpkin heading for the neighbours across the street, and one heading next door. Decisions will have to be made..do we claim right of way, make cars go around them, that sort of thing? Don’t know that that’s a terrible realistic plan, not in our street anyway. Next option, is to head them off at the pass in true John Wayne fashion; do some redirecting, turn the leaders away from..the neighbors across the street, and go along the lawn in a sort of zigzag affair. Let the bottom half of the lawn be reserved for cars, on account of that’s where people park out here, bekos the streets were designed for horseback. Two horses can pass each other, but cars..well, it’s like West Aus. One or both of them has to go bush to get past. Sigh. Actually not quite that bad, but it’s a bit hard to believe that people in their right mind would design streets this narrowly. 1800s, yep. 1900s, yeah. 2000s…u have to be joking.
So we have a plan. There is a movement in various cities to grow Stuff where-ever they can. We reckon front lawns come within the ambit. Whotcha reckon?