New Adventures in Homemaking

I'm trying something new and different.  While I've grown plants before, I've never started them from seed.  Well, for the most part.  There of course was the infamous story of the Pumpkins. 

For those of you who haven't heard it, Chris and I started a pumpkin patch in the courtyard of our apartment that we lived in prior to the house.  Oh, they were gorgeous.

However, the complex did not feel the same way about a pumpkin patch taking over their courtyard.  They insisted we at least keep it pruned back, but let us keep it until we could harvest some beauties.  Eventually, I pureed a bunch to cook with, but carved these two for a PSU/OSU party we had.  This may have been when people started referring to me as Martha...