Pumpkins are growing on lake bed where water once was

BUCKEYE LAKE — This year, two Buckeye Lake residents didn't have to go searching for their fall pumpkins, the pumpkins came to them.

Sue and Ron Smith, residents living on South Bank Road, first noticed pumpkins growing by their dock where water used to be before the lake was drained in the spring.

"We noticed the vines in the spring," Sue said. "I don't know how they started growing there, except maybe birds brought the seeds in."

A total of five pumpkins were growing among the weeds, which obscured them from sight until the colder weather started killing off the vegetation, Ron said.

"We just noticed one of them, and when I went down to check, I followed the vine and saw a more of them," he said. Ron added that if the water was still low in the spring, he is considering planting the whole bank in front of his deck with vines.