A Garden Victory!!!

So I decided over the summer to try and grow miniature (Jack Be Little) pumpkins in containers for the kids to have fun with at Halloween. Never mind that (as usual) I planted the seeds a teeny bit on the late side, after I started this experiment I found out that

A). Pumpkins don't really like containers because of their large roots.

B). Pumpkins don't really like heat and humidity, both of which we have an abundance of here in Texas this August!

and C). A pumpkin plant produces male flowers and female flowers, and if they can't manage to get their own pollinating right on their own, they don't make babies, and you have to hand-pollinate them yourself, which I never quite figured out how to do.

So as I warily expected, my three pumpkin plants have gotten too large for their containers, have suffered from a bout of powdery mildew disease, and have a bunch of flowers that I have no idea which are male and which are female. I had pretty much given up on actually getting any pumpkins from them, figuring I must have gone wrong and anyway it's getting kind of late in the season.

Imagine my excitement this morning to finally see a tiny baby pumpkin growing on the largest of my plants!!!! Woohooo!!!!!!! I'm so excited!!! Here's to hoping the other two plants will produce at least one baby each!