it happened gradually and half as an experiment. it started when my friend gave me a bunch of tomato and wildflower seeds, a neighbor gave me kitchen garden herb seeds, a friend-neighbor gave me two tiny breed pumpkins i didnt have time to cook so i pulled it apart and planted the seeds randomly in my yard to test where it would grow the best. now i have a bunch of herbs to cook with, a bunch of overcrowded tomato plants flowering, and a pumpkin garden in the part of the yard the pumpkins took root the best. they look ready to harvest but i think the leaves around them have to die first