Fecundity and obliteration

After two weeks of rain swept south west England, it was not too bad to get back to a rainy Germany.  Whilst there we had a chance to look around the (rainy) gardens at Greenway (NT) in Devon, where I really like to the peach frame in the grrenhouse.

Peach frame at Greenway

But somehow the time away had seen just the mixture of rain and sun required to make my few little pumpkin plants go completely beserk.

Pumpkin invasion

Unfortunately, the pumpkin plants grew not only all across the vegetable plot, but also across the lawn, up the (3m high) hedge and into the neighbour's runner beans.  My baby leeks were crushed.  Some of the pea row got pulled down.  And my own runer bea plants got assimilated with the pumpkins into the hedge.  Aargh.  But the good thing is the pumpkins are great (Turk's Turban) and there are plenty of them (around 30 so far.  Anyone know any easy recipe for pumpkin wine?