Garden Update

I know, I know. I haven't posted pictures in a while. My laptop is off getting a new keyboard (juice mishap...) and I haven't installed "Hello" on my clunky old desktop machine yet. I really ought to do that soon, it's going to be another month or so until I get my laptop back (sent it off last week and have yet to get a call or letter about the repair costs so I can aprove them).

The pumpkin plant is looking really pathetic. I think it has devloped "powdery mildew", or at least some sort of fungas. The leaves are covered in white stuff and dying off.
I have 5 pumpkins in various stages of maturity. The oldest looks like it will be at the peak or ripeness any day now, the youngest still green and smallish.
There is technically a 6th pumpkin. A couple of female flower buds bloomed this past week, one fertalized and is growing. It is on a vine I was going to cut up for clones though and I'm debating about letting it grow or not. Oh, it's also growing on that evergreen bush I mentioned earlier, which is another reason for not letting the pumpkin develop.

The sunflowers are doing well. Two tall yellow flowered plants have flowers blooming. The bees are making freaquent trips to them, and a squirl has already taken a chunk out of one.

I've collected over 200 sunflower seeds from the red flowered plant beside the backdoor, about 150-200 cosmos seeds (in orange, yellow, and yellow with orange sripes), and several dozen assorted seeds from allysum, violas, and plants I don't know the names of.
I'm wating for the pretty pink flowered garden balsam seed pods to mature so I can collect seeds from it. I'd like to plant some in the front yard next year.