Country Mouse...Tuesday: wrong seeds?!

This is making me feel a bit like a crazy person, so I'm turning to you for help.

Look at the photo at left. Does the actual physical pumpkin on the vine look anything at all like the one depicted on the front of that seed packet?

I didn't think so.

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Country Mouse Monday: aaaah, seeds ordered...

The Baker Creek seed catalog is seriously my most favorite garden-porn -- 211 whole pages of luscious photos of gorgeous food and flowers, a feast for the eyes.

Garden dreams like these illuminate every dark winter.

The catalog's been been sitting on the coffee table for a couple of months now.  I gobbled it as soon as it arrived, page by page, imagining this summer's garden,

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