2021 - What I did today

   

This was my squash patch, carefully fenced in to keep out dogs and chooks and other marauding beasties
Today I pulled up the plants in disgust. There were 3 tiny bright yellow pumpkins about the size of a 50p piece and that seemed to be it. Pathetic!
There was one plant that had grown out of the squash enclosure and was trailing through some flowers - so I left that one until last. 
It was a bit harder to uproot, felt heavy, and there, nestling in the middle of the flowers was a huge green pumpkin (that's huge compared to the 3 yellow things).  I think its Musquee de Provence but it has a long way to go before it reaches the 20lbs advertised by Suttons.

There must be a moral here - do your best to protect your plants and they fail, let them roam free and they're the best of the bunch!!