My first post

This, obviously, is my first post. Disclaimer: viewer discretion is advised: warning: or just 'you have been given notice.'  As per the the title this is indeed about Pumpkins.  A little background first...A few months ago (we'll say October '09), I thought it would be a good idea to buy a house.  I felt I needed a large expensive box to contain all of my stuff.  Anyhow spring came and I did some 'gardening,' or what I thought was gardening.  I mentioned this in passing to a colleague at work and they told me weeding was not gardening.  It was just weeding...A lot of weeding...

I have a flower bed that is about four feet by fifteen feet in front of my house. I pulled three of the large brown yard waste bags full of thistle out of it.  The first two bags before I found out that I was just creating more of a problem pulling them out than by just killing them in place.  The last bag was full of dead brown thistle.

That being done (some time in the end of June), I now had control of my flower bed.  I remembered back to when I said I was 'gardening' (it all started in April, I think) and figured maybe now would be a good time to actually garden.

So, July 3rd (about four months later than you should-apparently) I planted some pumpkin seeds.  Theses are the seeds that you get from the little paper bag for 99 cents at the garden store.  I had no real aspiration that anything would grow...little to my surprise, about ten days later there was a little green thing poking out of the ground...