Nerdy farm facts. This flower is both male and female.
There’s a pistol inside, and it needs the pollen.
Do you know who takes care of that?
Bees. Thank you for the bees.
Once the. Once the pollen falls onto the pistol in the middle.
Oh, she’s.
She’s shy. The miracle continues.
It can start to grow. This is when you get the email that says,
Congratulations, Mama Pumpkin,
your baby is the size of a large grape.
Ah, it keeps growing and growing and growing.
This curls up and dries off.
Sometimes it doesn’t.
It’s like a little umbilical cord.
It’s crazy. Dear mama,
congratulations today. Your pumpkins are a nice size B.
And they keep going and going until they grow into big,
beautiful pumpkins.