Pumpkins Thriving Through Late Summer

The pumpkin plants are still growing as the garden heads into late summer. Not many new pumpkins but most of the pumpkins are growing in size. The Walczak pumpkin plants seem to be the healthiest.

Other Garden Happenings...

Watermelons

The watermelons are finally starting to grow. Grandma found only 3 melons that are only the size of marbles.

Pollinators

Grandma's flowers attract several kinds of pollinators. A pollinator is an animal that helps plants produce fruit or seeds. When pollinators such as bees, birds, bats, butterflies, and small mammals go to plants to eat their nectar, they get pollen grains stuck on them, which then rubs off onto the next plant they travel to. The pollen from one plant can fertilize the next plant that the pollinator gets nectar from. Only fertilized plants can make fruit and/or seeds, and without them, the plants cannot reproduce.

In the video, you can see all the pollinators buzzing around the ornamental onions.

Here are some moths, butterflies, bees and beetles that are pollinators in Grandma's garden.