dstvns wrote:

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:24:42 GMT, "For Auction"
wrote:

I'm new at gardening and growing things, so this year I decided to try to
grow giant pumpkins for my first try at it. I had ordered some special blend
of "Atlantic Giants" and followed about 300 pages of advice on the internet.
I was watering 3 times a day, fertilizing once every two, training the
vines, and I already got 3 plants with 2 pounders on them! Well....used too.
I guess I learned today that growing pumpkins for the state fair is a
competitive business.....someone pitchforked the entire patch today, 20
plants. Anybody else experience this? I'm so traumatized I'm thinking of
growing tomatoes!

I'd plant another set and set up a camera with time-lapse VCR. It
would be nearly irresistible for an egotistical idiot like this to try
it again.

Dan

Watermelons or cukes would germinate faster and look nearly identical.
A few basketballs scattered at random might strengthen the illusion.