Growing pumpkins in a balcony vegetable garden, rural planting series part 3

Pumpkin: a rough climbing vine widely grown for its edible fruit; the pumpkin fruit is a large round fruit with thick orange-yellow flesh and many seeds; it has a furry skin and unisexual flowers, and is also a tendril-bearing plant.

In the morning, the pumpkin vines had climbed much higher again.

I water it and pull the weeds. Every day it is the same, and I have come to see these as a pleasure in my life.

The leaves of the pumpkin vines, water spinach and amaranth all grow beautifully, and tiny water droplets still glisten on the leaves, like transparent beads. I feel as if I am once again in a village vegetable garden.

When the pumpkin vines had nowhere left to climb, I found some long little wooden boards, stuck a little board beside each pumpkin, and strung several thin or thick nylon ropes to build a proper trellis for the vines to climb smoothly, and with this created a growing shelter for the balcony!

More than a month passed, and the dark green vines covered the growing shelter, with lush green leaves and golden-yellow flowers, and the bees fascinated by the pumpkin flowers, and the tiny lovely little pumpkins hidden under the leaves.

Vines, leaves, flowers and pumpkins set each other off beautifully, forming a lovely picture.

The pumpkin trellis can also give us a shady spot in the heat of summer.

In the morning, the vegetable garden lets me feel the fresh fragrance of the vegetables; at noon, in the dappled sunlight, standing by the balcony lets me feel that summer is not so hot; in the evening we can also enjoy the cool of the gentle breeze.