Happy Halloween!
I'm happy to say that this is not the only pumpkin that I got out of the garden this year. For some reason my garden was plagued by squash vine borer this summer, which killed off many of my squash plants. The ONLY one not to take a hit was the french pumpkins. These plants were very vigorous growers and it grew roots at almost every node along the vine- whether it was touching ground or not! This feature of the plant may have been just the adaptive feature it needed to survive my horrid summer of the squash vine borer.
