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Yes, I believe they are all the same in that way. Just why they drop their female flowers at first, I wish I could say.

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Thank you. I hate cell phone videos, although most of the videos of my cats and dogs are from my cell phone. I won't use the cell phone in the garden. I did order a new camera today and expect it by late this week. Looking forward to the battery lasting longer than 10 minutes 😆 And I do enjoy transferring the video to the computer and editing it there. So much easier than on a phone where everything's tiny.

@@alix5704 Oh I totally agree with everything you said. My phone is old from 2016 and you can film on the side so it looks like a normal camera. But I love cameras and have my digital cameras too. Yes phones are too small and you can't get the quality and zoom that you do with a real camera. And yes editing gives you so much advantage on a computer you can't get on a phone. I think about getting rid of the stupid thing. I don't really need it and the rest of the world doesnt either. They need to figure that out and get back to living life. I hope you like the new camera.

@@ScaryFear Thanks, and I totally agree with you about cell phones!

Thank you! I just saw a video where some gardener was saying why she hated hers and that she is removing them, but nothing she said about them seemed particularly bad or worrisome. And they look much neater than the cloth beds. They are also very easy to keep the poodles out of, lol.

So glad to hear from you! I did start a pumpkin-growing group on Facebook and it ended up being overrun with giant-pumpkin growers and farmers, so I gave up. Not that I don't like those people, but it wasn't the point of the group. The group was for people wanting to grow plain old jack-o-lanterns in their back yards, and the giant-pumpkin folks in particular were scaring them off by making them think they had to have a professional set-up to grow pumpkins. I wish your neighbor would move so you could grow again, now that you have the season figured out. I understand, though. On the south side of my lawn I have a neighbor who has someone spray glyphosate on their lawn all the time, and it killed my 2 cherry bushes. Again, I hope that neighbor moves away from you. And once again, great to hear from you!

@@somebodysbackyardpumpkinpa5134 Thanks. Nice to see you update too. I'd love to post videos again but yeah with all the jerk neighbors gardening isn't working out for me. I wish good people would move in for sure. And that's so annoying about your group being run over by giant pumpkin growers. I miss the old days online when my livejournal pumpkin and gourd group was popular. I did manage to grow one large tomato for the first time this year.

@@ScaryFear (this is me on my other channel) Great to hear about the tomato! At least there's some satisfaction from the garden. And yes...the name of the group was Backyard Pumpkin Growers Society and I can somewhat understand how we got giant-pumpkin growers (even though there is another FB group dedicated to growing giant pumpkins in your backyard) in spite of the fact that I kept explaining that we were about growing jack-o-lanterns. But I don't understand how we got farmers. Even more amusing, one of them asked the group "how many acres do you have?" My garden is a fraction of 1/4 acre, lol. I couldn't believe that question. Looking forward to looking in on your budgies!

@@alix5704 Oh man yeah it's a Backyard as in Suburban. Yes like you said some people have grown a big one in a small yard but it's about regular sized pumpkins. I'd dissolve the group and start over since there's already a group for that. Thanks. I still have budgies. Things have been rough here the last two or three years so I haven't been posting as much as I would like anywhere. I want to get back to it.

@@ScaryFear I hope you do get back to it. Hugs on all the difficulties. I was unable to dissolve the group due to Facebook restrictions, but handed it over to...a farmer. In the future if I start another such group, I'll put "suburban back yard" in the title (and probably still get giant-pumpkin growers and farmers!).

Thanks. I guess I'll go out and breathe on them and try to make them ripen, lol. Don't know what else to do at this point. Hope you're well; got involved in competing in a figure skating competition and life has been upside down ever since.

I'm in McHenry County, IL. Please tell my how your pumpkin garden turned out! I have never grown them in a small container. Sorry I'm so long getting back to you on this comment, and thanks for the comment!

Yes, I'm so happy with the results. It does make the garden look messy but with all the good that comes from radishes and catnip growing with pumpkins, I don't care much :)

Thanks. What happens during droughts is that I get obsessive about watering. I even watered yesterday morning...and then it rained like crazy, lol.

Thank you! Hope you can see them in person soon!

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This is good to hear! I was feeling guilty.

I think so too. I took to putting time-stamps on my earlier videos this year because I'm so long-winded. Yep, I got some pumpkins this year. Not many, but after last year's disaster (one pumpkin out of 8 vines), I'll take it.

Thanks for subscribing! Got a whole new flush of pumpkins in the garden in the past few weeks, but the weather is turning cooler this week so the harvest should not be far off.

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I'm grateful the mystery peppers didn't turn out to be ghost peppers, lol. I wish I could share them with you. They are extremely flavorful, (but not hot) and are good in scrambled eggs.

Yep, that one pumpkin will be the Great Pumpkin for this year. The neighbor already knows it's going to his daughter. It does seem that one minute the vines are bright and green and covering the ground, and the next minute they're gone. Pumpkins are a great way to tell how fast the summer is going by. Thanks about the sunflower. I noted yesterday that our goldfinches are only eating from the multi-bud sunflower and not from the big single ones, which tells me the single ones are actually Pike's Peak.

BTW, replying from my other account, this is Somebody's Backyard Pumpkin Patch speaking here, lol.

@@alix5704 That is so interesting. This is our first year where we might actually get a sunflower to develop a head, so we are just excited for that. :) We have never had success germinating them in the past, and I don't know why.

@@alix5704 Understood. :D

@@GutenGardening The big trouble growing them here is rabbits mowing them down to the ground before they can grow, so I put little plastic mesh fences around them. Hope you have good luck with your sunflowers!

But your tomatoes look fabulous!

@@GutenGardening Thanks about the tomatoes! Yes, this seems to be my tomato year, not my pumpkin year. We have someone in the group Backyard Pumpkin Growers Society who says that she grows pumpkins in the desert and there is no problem with the high temperatures. But I'm in zone 5B and our normal summertime temps are in the low to mid-80's (F), and this summer we've routinely been in the low 90's with little or no rain. I think that's added to the stress of the plants, along with the dust from the pavers and early over-fertilization. My bad. Next year it's back to Racer Plus, and hopefully happier days in the pumpkin patch. Gotta go look at your videos!

@@somebodysbackyardpumpkinpa5134 You know, we are in zone 5, and the heat has been pretty rough here. I think maybe that is why our cucumbers have had an particularly bad go of it this year. I read that pumpkins can be okay in the heat, but I still agree with you that that likely could cause some stress. At least you got the one nice big one! Live and learn. :) Thank you so much for the quick reply!

Thanks! I never expected that Teddy Bear sunflower, lol. And the color on the Strawberry Blond sunflower I zeroed in on is off -- it's actually quite purple.

I'm noticing that since I moved a bit further north than I was, there's more catnip growing wild. Cats in MN must be perpetually stoned, lol!

Thanks for subscribing! Yeah, having more than one channel is going to be confusing, but the reason for all of this is that my third channel (under another sign-on entirely) is going to be partially for business purposes and I want to keep it separate. Thought I'd start practicing by finally starting to use my gardening channel, which has actually existed for several years but I haven't used it.