Growing where it shouldn't
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (351747)
Rockingham, Australia
March 30, 2025 11:34pm CST
We are house-sitting and there are lawns on both sides of the house. This vagrant plant is poking its head out through the lawn. Do you recognise it? It’s a pumpkin. There are several pumpkin platns in the garden but somehow this one has decided it wants to grow in the lawn.
I might leave it there for the owners to see. Maybe the quenda will eat it although it hasn’t touched the others.
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@rsa101 (38452)
• Philippines
31 Mar
It’s unfortunate that seeds don’t get to choose where they grow. They rely entirely on where their planter decides to place them, with no say in the matter. Some may even fall unnoticed, left to struggle on their own. I just hope they’re given the chance to grow where they’ve landed—or, at the very least, be replanted somewhere they can truly thrive and flourish.
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@FourWalls (74064)
• United States
31 Mar
I wonder if an animal (we would blame squirrels here for their penchant for burying food for future use) buried a pumpkin seed there and it germinated, or if a bird dropped it while flying. Either way, it’s interesting to see a pumpkin plant on an otherwise well-manicured lawn!
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@LindaOHio (187188)
• United States
31 Mar
That's very cool. I would leave it there too.
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@BarBaraPrz (49425)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
31 Mar
Yeah, since you're house-sitting, best to leave it there, you don't know for sure if it's a volunteer or if the house people planted it there. Good excuse to not cut the grass. 
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@terri0824 (5138)
• United States
31 Mar
We were just looking in our garden this weekend to see if there was any volunteer plants as it seems every year we will have a volunteer or two each year.
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@terri0824 (5138)
• United States
2 Apr
@JudyEv In our garden we throw our food scraps and then from left over veggies that we didn't harvest at the end of the season will sometimes drop their seeds and grow by volunteer.
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@JudyEv (351747)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Apr
@terri0824 I'm sure you would get quite a few plants coming up from doing this.
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@snowy22315 (188425)
• United States
31 Mar
Its funny when things get a mind to grow like that.
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@JudyEv (351747)
• Rockingham, Australia
2 Apr
It is indeed. They choose the most impossible situations sometimes.
@wolfgirl569 (115102)
• Marion, Ohio
31 Mar
It looks happy there. I would let them decide
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@allknowing (144633)
• India
31 Mar
It will devour the lawn I was planning on writing a post about my terrace lawn. We have some alamanda potted plants there but they have devoured the lawn. The terrace is loaded with alamanda No doubt they look good but the lawn has taken a toll.
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@akalinus (44301)
• United States
8 Apr
@JudyEv Pumpkins are great. You can roast the seeds. Some animals love to eat the pumpkin. They make excellent pie. I think you should keep it, IMO. You could put something around it to keep it from being mowed. They do take a lot of space. Let us know if you keep it or not, and how it turns out.
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@Deepizzaguy (109048)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
31 Mar
It is odd to see a pumpkin grow in a lawn where you and your relatives are staying,
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