What's been happening?!

OK.... so the blog hasn't been updated for some time now - I've been slack and the garden has been dry and rather un-eventful

With some recent rain though, it's been making a come back. The roses are all out in bloom and the grass is starting to turn wild

Most interesting though is the unexpected addition to the back rose garden. After mulching very thickly some tiny little plants started to emerge. They appeared to be melon or pumpkin. They continued to grow and I watched on - wondering....

The growth continued and apart from odd watering and some minor taming of the vine, it's been left mostly alone.

Seems there are 2 plants there. One MIGHT be a watermelon??? This only has 1 fruit so far

The other one is a butternut pumpkin. This currently has 1 large pumpkin (about 20cm) and lots of smaller ones emerging - 1 cute one if less then half the size of my pinky fingernail!

so there you go - I've been wondering how the seed got in there and have come to accept they must have been from the veggie compost I'd added before putting the tree mulch across the top

Here are some pictures