Beetroot.

[Wildfern]

I am hoping for bright orange pumpkins this year instead of iron barks. So far the plants are going for broke, racing along the fenceline, but the baby fruits are yellowing and dropping off. I'm hoping it is just discarding in order to foster growth, but it is frustrating all the same. My tomatoes though are doing well. No blossom end rot this year, touch wood fingers crossed. I put milk powder in the planting hole, maybe that did the trick.

And I have heaps of baby plants too, my compost is rich with them. Bet they are all yellow pear cherries. Those things are excessively fertile...

The reason your baby pumpkins are filling off is because they are not pollinated. You need a male and female flower open at the same time. Female flowers have the fruit, males don’t. You can hand pollinate or cross your fingers and hopefully a bee will come along. We have the same problem here, real lack of bees this year.