Rural Gardening: Adventures on Dirt Rich Farm (City goes Country), 1 by Hineni

Hineni wrote:
Then, I spied...ORANGE in the midst of green. I gleefully thought...WE HAVE PUMPKINS! Ermm, I don't know a lot about pumpkins, but I don't think that they are bumpy like this. But it got me fired up enough to throw down a couple of glasses of tea, make a phone call to J to let him know the garden had not won yet, and to head back out into the forr...errr garden to get to the PUMPKIN! I was elated. I was fired up. I do not think it is a pumpkin. What is it?