A health Emergency and damage done to my fluted Pumpkins plants. A proper harvest method to prevent damage to plant.

in Homesteading21 hours ago

Hello Hive

Just yesterday I was talking about how fortunate I was regarding how my fluted pumpkins have been surviving the dry seasons, and I was hoping to see it produce some more seeds for planting. The more seeds these veggies produce, the more we can be able to plant and cover more ground here with these important veggies. I have planted just two seeds since last year, and we have eaten from the veggies multiple times. If, peradventure, this produces a pod of seeds for me, I would be having at least 50 more seed pods for planting.

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Well, I'm not sure if that will be possible anymore, as my younger brother has recently suffered a health emergency, and we have taken him to the hospital. While he is still on admission, I had visited the hospital yesterday to check on him and feed him. Upon my return from the hospital, I realized that our neighbor's goats had eaten up my fluted pumpkins.

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I was really angry because this is what I have labored for for a whole year, hoping that this will produce some seeds for me to replant and expand more of the fluted pumpkins in this place. Most of the time when I am at home, I make it a point of duty to keep away goats, chickens, or any animal that will disturb the plants.

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The roots of the two planted fluted pumpkins seeds. Actually I planted more that two but the rest died and this is the two that survived.

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I have only planted two seeds from last year, and being in a sack, the roots have survived because of how much I was constantly wetting it. Now that these goats have eaten a larger part of it, I don't know if the entire plant will survive or make progress with the seed development.

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The stem from which my brother Harvested some leaves making that part to dry off.

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Many a time I have told people that not everyone is good with harvesting fluted pumpkins and have warned my brother to stay clear of it and permit me to harvest the leaves for him each time he needs it. He didn't listen to me either and had gone to pluck some leaves by himself.

All the portions of the plant he has harvested the leaves from are drying up as well. It's really annoying that all of these times are happening at this time.
My brother is sick and admitted to the teaching hospital, calling for my attention as a caregiver, and now that I am away for a while, my garden veggies are equally under attack.
It's barely a few days to Christmas, and I hope that we don't get to spend our Christmas in the hospital.

Keeping a garden can be sometimes demanding, and it needs our time and attention. More importantly, we need to enlighten those who enter our garden to fetch vegetables so that they won't damage what we labor for just because they need some veggies.

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