Silly me - just like when Christmas hits the stores before Halloween, I used to get very annoyed (not to mention righteously indignant) when Halloween pumpkins started showing up in the supermarket mid-September. That was, until we learned this year that if you plant your pumpkins the autumn before (and by plant I mean smoosh a decaying jack o’lantern into the garden) they actually are full grown in September.

Here’s our very first — we’re so proud :)