Ending and Beginning

I mentioned in an earlier post that we’re saving seeds from a couple of pumpkins, one home-grown, one purchased. It occurred to me today that although I’m fairly confident the seed from the pumpkin grown at home will reproduce the same pumpkin (by virtue of the fact that we didn’t grow anything it could cross with, and it’s unlikely our neighbors did), I don’t know anything about the location where the store-bought pumpkin was grown and it’s possible it has crossed with something else. Only growing the seeds will tell us for sure, so we’ll keep an eye on it and try not to be surprised by whatever it produces.

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