how does your garden grow?

[sally]

I had a renegade pumpkin come up by my back door and I trained it in the opposite direction and just let it go. It was covered in flowers so I thought I'd have a shit ton of pumpkins. I was checking that monster everyday and finally just found a walnut sized pumpkin. I said pull that bitch up, she was all talk and no production. Beautiful, healthy vine though. The past few days everyone who uses the back door has asked about it.

That happened when I tried to grow summer squash once. The plant grew huge, but it never produced anything until one day I looked in there and found the biggest, perfectly shaped yellow squash I've ever seen. I could have won a blue ribbon for that squash. But that was it, the plant died after that.