Not all ideas are good

Last weekend I had my oldest daughter plant Swiss Chard and carrots in the garden I tilled the week before. This week, I took a peak at the garden to see how the weed situation was looking. There is a section with large seedlings. Anyone with any gardening experience knows weeds don't grow in groups. While this didn't have the uniform look of garden plantings...it did look like a five year old planted them.
He has no memory of where he planted. That's like a five year old. So I asked my teen. After several minutes of pondering, she remembered that last fall I had handed her the jack 'o lantern guts and told her to stick them under the cardboard I had laid out to keep the weeds from growing over the winter. (I was really determined to have a garden this spring) I wish I could go back in time. I really want to shake myself, and find out what I was thinking.  Even five pumpkin seeds can make a huge pumpkin patch.

Add to that, I doubt these will be great pumpkins since the ones we picked were little. I had Great Pumpkin seeds sitting out waiting to be planted. Maybe I can use these to make fried pumpkin blossoms. I've always wanted to try that.
Now, for the rest of the garden, I plan to try the Three Sisters approach- using a corn stalk to grow my peas and beans, and squash growing below. It's too bad I already bought the squash seeds, because the pumpkins would be great growing below the corn.