What we found...In the compost?

Soon after we moved into our new house, Matt made these wonderful compost boxes for us to use (since we both were interested in gardening and compost). The boxes do a great job. The reason that they might look a little odd at this moment is that they have removable sides so that you can mix the two boxes when turning the compost, so the sides are down on most of the boxes.

When walking up to the compost box, you would not expect to see anything odd. Well about a month ago we started to see something odd but we ignored it. That is until...
We had to pick it. Yes, somehow we had a pumpkin growing in our compost bin. We did not plant it there (or at least not on purpose). We think that it might have been a stray seed that entered the compost from when we made jack-o-lanterns last year.
We watched our pumpkin grow. We were completely amazed that we had a pumpkin. Then this past Sunday we noticed that the leaves were not long for the world and that the pumpkin was completely orange. Time for us to pick it!

Here is Matt showing off both his pumpkin and the compost boxes (both of which he is very proud of...and should be)
My turn with the pumpkin...it is on my head because that is where Matt placed it very quickly before he snapped the picture.
Yep. 11 pounds and 3 ounces. This is going to make some wonderful pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, pumpkin rolls, pumpkin....oh, I am getting hungry!
Since I am hungry I will finish off with a picture of some of the wonderful "Dagwood" sandwiches that Matt made this weekend. When we have produce coming from the garden these are regular staples at our house. Pickles made from the cucumber that we grew, tomatoes fresh from the garden....oh, these sandwiches are fabulous!

I love our garden :)