"George.com" wrote in message
I am growing potatos in tyres and they are thriving. One stack is 5 tryes
high and still going. I started running out of soil to throw in the tyres
so
last weekend I went round to a mates compost bin to dig some compost out.
Its typical back yard compost, a large mound of material slowly rotting
down
with a humus of material on top, better stuff further down and a covering
of
weeds.

I scraped back the weeds and turfed the top humus to one side before
extracting several sacks worth of the better stuff. I took it home and
have
started shoving it in my tyres.

Anyhow, on the sunday night my friend called asking if I had a pumpkin
plant
in my sacks. His lad had come home from a weekend with his mum & rushed up
the garden to see how the pumpkin plant he had growing in the compost pile
was doing. It was a giant pumpkin he was going to enter a competition
with.
He came back down the garden in tears, some how the pumpkin plant had
'dissappeared'.

During my dig I had assumed the pumpkin plant was another weed and likely
turfed it to one side. The lad was distraught and I felt sorry for him,
but
at the same time I did have to laugh.

Ah Rob! You are indeed a garden bully! Nicely titled thread too (even if
it seems that some didn't recognise the irony)! Perhaps you can take the
lad under your wing and show him round your garden and show him how to
really go about growing pumpkins that he might be proud to enter into a
competition.