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Somewhere in North Carolina

i am bored

5/16/2002 5:57:13 PM

Deer Park WA

Well then, go mow the lawn for the folks or something....

5/16/2002 7:44:24 PM

Liverpool , England

Yo Idiot,
Go top yourself then....hell man (sorry kid)..how can you be bored growing giant pumpkins...its non-stop trauma all season long...watering...feeding..training..weeding..etc etc.

Alun

5/16/2002 7:46:34 PM

Somewhere in North Carolina

i just plant the damn things, oops pardon my french, i try the advcance seed method twice, it screwed me up. so i just put the in a pot with soil. i am getting so tried of them. thery can be a pain in the butt.

5/16/2002 8:47:24 PM

derry n.h u.s.a.

Hi PI:
Sounds like your not having too much luck getting started.You might want to consider trying to find a book called(How to grow world class giant pumpkins)By Don Langiven.Its the Pumpkin growers bible!
Even if you don't grow a megga pumpkin the first year(most first timers are very happy with a 1 or 2 hundred lb pumpkin)I know i was.It will give you all the pointers and advice you need to get started.Best of luck.

5/16/2002 9:07:58 PM

Webster, NY

Idiot, not to worry, even if you get them in the ground after it warms up a bit (at least here in upstate NY), you still have time to grow a great halloween pumpkin in the neighborhood of a few hundred pounds. Don't give up now.

5/16/2002 9:12:52 PM

Puyallup, WA

The PI said,
"i try the advcance seed method twice, it screwed me up...."

Now that explains it!! Some of us were wondering what happened to you.

5/16/2002 9:53:00 PM

Stafford, Virginia

Sounds like his parents tried the advance seed method too.

5/17/2002 7:53:43 AM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

cut a big hole in your front pants pocket...

5/17/2002 8:33:53 AM

Somewhere in North Carolina

hey i dont care of a few jokes. but when you start talking about my parents then i got a problem. so back off

5/17/2002 3:58:13 PM

Somewhere in North Carolina

and if you was wondering who i was talking talking to. JOHN NANCY

5/17/2002 4:00:15 PM

North Ga

It's cool PI. Don't get discouraged!! Everything will be alright! Do your best!!

5/17/2002 8:06:39 PM

New Hampshire

Youve been a pretty good sport PI dont let people get you down. email me I can give you some tips. Im sure lots of AG growers have had some trouble. There is still plenty of time. Is this your first year growing??

5/17/2002 10:14:15 PM

Somewhere in North Carolina

yes

5/17/2002 10:23:28 PM

Puyallup, WA

.....and since he is "bored" just two weeks into the season.....it may also be his last!!

5/17/2002 11:13:15 PM

Watching the seed sprout, watching (and intervening if required) as the tiny cotys split the seed coat and emerge. Watching the first leaf develop, monitoring the enviroment, caring for the seedling. Setting up the patch, the Ironite's, and Nitrates, 10-20-whatevers and Ph and wet dirt and tilling. need huts too. build huts, set em up. Dig the pits. Set the plants out. Monitor and adjust environment... open the hut, close it, turn on the heat (and swear cuz ya need to leave it on all day most days). The season is two-three weeks old.

Yea, I'm bored too.

:)

5/17/2002 11:58:39 PM

Paradise Mountain, New York

when i was 16, i never heard of the word BORED. there is all sorts of things you can find to do. buy and read a book on growing pumpkins will help you so you don't have tons of questions.

5/18/2002 12:01:40 AM

Deer Park WA

blkcloud, That is some Sage advice Bro. You must have teenagers, or are you just remembering how you kept "entertained" as a youth.....

JohnNancy, I also tried the advanced method a few times (removing the protective covering)and just, well wound up with teenagers....

5/18/2002 12:11:22 AM

Roanoke Il

Never in a million years would I have thought of growing pumpkins when I was a late teenager. To busy drinking beer ,chasing Girls, playing ball ect. That thats one thing a kid his age doesn't want to think about advantced seed starting lol

5/18/2002 7:31:59 AM

Western NY

i was growing ag's when i was 16. (only started the real giants 4 years ago) i wish i would have weighed the early ones, they were probably 150-250#. back then, it was 2 ag plants, and a whole variety of other veggies. now it's a garden twice the size, and only one row of potatoes, all the rest is pumpkins.

Andy

5/18/2002 11:46:44 AM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

gads, one saturday morning along time ago i told my daddy when he went into town i wanted him to get me some new overalls and something to play with, well he got back from town with a brand new pair of overhalljumpers and had the front pocket cut out... so i speak from experience..

5/18/2002 12:06:12 PM

Glenn Springs S.C.

Hey Pumpkin Idiot just enjoy your first year .Iwas all hyped up last year,ready to plant in January about to bust by May . I live in upstate S.C. and mine matured early July and I was bored with it by then also. You have til mid June down here to start your plants and still get several hundred pounds out of it and have it for halloween or the fairs.
Jeff

5/19/2002 12:14:40 AM

Greencastle, PA

Mark,
Who said you can't chase girls, drink beer, and grow AG's at the same time?
Tom

5/19/2002 3:25:48 AM

Roanoke Il

Tom when I chased girls and drank beer and played football Thats all I did pluss worked. After work one would shower go to the bars or clubs party until 2:00 am get up for work
and it all started over the next day maybe resting 2or 3 nights a week. during football season work practice sleep maybe drink a few beers after a game. no time for ag's. Unless you are superman I really don't think you could give both life stlyes the justice they deserve. lol

5/19/2002 7:52:05 AM

Greencastle, PA

I'm working on it. So far I've got the AG's, chasing girls, and playing football down.
Tom

5/19/2002 10:44:35 PM

Greencastle, PA

maybe not so much the AG's

5/19/2002 10:44:55 PM