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Butler,PA

#10
Running your dehumidifer outside to collect water
for your newly planted seeds inside..............

4/26/2013 12:19:53 AM

Muddy Waters

Ok Jim wheres the other 9 ??

4/26/2013 7:29:15 AM

bliss,n.y.- heart of Wyoming County

9- Thinking thin sheets of ice from your windshield will make a great hoophouse cover.

4/26/2013 7:54:52 AM

Massachusetts

#8
going away on vacation for 2 weeks at the end of july.

4/26/2013 7:59:18 AM

Niagara Falls,NY

Using a weed wacker to close to your plant.(yes I did!)

4/26/2013 8:03:21 AM

Niagara Falls,NY

Oops, forgot to put #7 to above

4/26/2013 8:04:33 AM

west central IN/East central IL

#6 grabbing the wrong sprayer for insecticide, oops it was weed killer.

4/26/2013 9:23:57 AM

Connecticut, USA

#5 - Pruning errors - Oops, that WAS the main vine!

4/26/2013 9:58:53 AM

Central NY

#4... Snipping of female flower to pollinate male flower....

4/26/2013 10:23:34 AM

Joliet, IL

#3 Trusting a verbal weather forecast of cloudy and 50 degrees without looking at satellite for cloud cover and approaching fronts. Then off to work to see the morning clouds clearing and knowing the hoops were never vented. Toast!

Establish a goto guy or gal if no one home to vent them if needed in emergency. Sometimes its good to have some unemployed friends....lol.

4/26/2013 10:35:16 AM

Colorado

#2 accidently pruning the main vine before the fruit. It looked like a tertiary vine, but I guess it wasn't.

4/26/2013 11:13:35 AM

Honesdale, Pennsylvania

#1 The wife really loves all the time and hard work I put in the patch.

4/26/2013 11:21:57 AM

Butler,PA

#1
I'm a new giant pumpkin grower, can anyone tell me how I
can grow a 1,500 lb pumpkin?

4/26/2013 11:32:40 AM

BC, Canada

Porkchop LOL, that made me laugh!

4/26/2013 11:48:02 AM

43.841677 , -79.086692

Starwecki,

A good mentor, good soil, hard work, lots of luck.

4/26/2013 4:22:32 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

I pulled a #5 on a 746 Snyder plant one night in 2011 after a happy hour that lasted until well after dark... at the stump!!!

4/26/2013 4:31:25 PM

Guelph, ONT

Letting a squash vine borer moth fly around thinking it may eat cucumber beetles...Opps

4/26/2013 4:56:53 PM

Pocatello ([email protected])

#0, running over the main vine with a truck. Yes, it has been done...

4/26/2013 5:14:01 PM

Johnston, Iowa

# -1 Racking a freaking huge city water bill during the drought because the pond is dry, the creek ran dry, and the rain barrels stayed empty.

4/26/2013 6:50:18 PM

South East

#-2 moving the fruit in a better position and breaking it of the vine,,,,ooops!!

#-3 scratching your fruit with long finger nails oops!!

4/26/2013 9:28:25 PM

Upa Creek, MO

I recall a post from maybe 2010, and someone said watch it if you have some drinks or go out the night before, then wake up and try working on the plants. I think it was one of those Illinois Budweiser drinkers.

#2 Hangovers and pollinations don't work... no that's #1

4/26/2013 9:48:26 PM

Muddy Waters

#1 Selling all my seeds for fertilizer money.

4/27/2013 7:20:59 AM

San Diego

trimming off the leafs with a knife around 20 day old pumpkin, only to drop knife after done. Yup, you guessed it. Pumpkin caught knife tip first and knife was standing up smiling at me in the fruit:)

4/27/2013 11:38:33 AM

Zurich, Ontario Canada

Lifting the kin with a back hoe on weigh day. pushing wrong lever and squashing the kin with the hoe. (i mean a back hoe- not a hoe!!!!!!)

4/28/2013 10:15:35 AM

west central IN/East central IL

Getting great ideas when you hear about milk and pumpkins. Injecting milk into vine with syringe. Hey, I was in high school. Roundup couldn't of killed it faster lol.

4/28/2013 11:09:38 PM