Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!

You're looking at this year's seed lineup. I'll plant them both, and may the best plant win! The glasses have a mixture of Norweigan seaweed extract that the seeds will soak in before being planted. That seaweed fertilizer is really nasty stuff but the plants supposedly love it.

I carefully filed down the edges of the seeds so the roots and leaves can break out easily...



















And they're ready to hit the seaweed! I labeled them so I can tell them apart, but the genetics of these two girls are nearly identical anyway. (So why are the seeds different colors I wonder? I have several seeds from both these pumpkins and the coloring is consistent.)