"George.com" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message

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.

Dad had a good laugh about it too. He had to go out the next day a buy his
lad another giant pumpkin seedling. The poor lad was totally bemused how
his
pumpkin plant had dissappeared over the weekend.

Didn't the lad notice that the 'compost heap' had lost a heap of it's
contents in addition to his pumpkin plant?

I was helping his old man
do some painting inside & got the envious job of painting slatted wardrobe
doors which was a shit of a job.

Eeeew! Brings on palpitations jsut thinking of it!

Unfortunately Crooks compost heap looked
like a mound of weeds. Hard to differentiate what was a pumpkin plant and
what was simply unwanted. A typical back yard compost heap with things
like
'organic' plastic bags, bits of wrapper & cigarette butts. Next time I
'borrow' some compost Crook will need to guide me past the replacement
pumpkin plant.

rob

ps I don't grow pumpkins, not too partial to the taste.

But you are a good gardener from the things I remember you having written in
the past. I'm sure you could give him some tips on growing his veggies in
decent surrounding and with some care. I doubt whether you'd need to be a
pumpkin expert to give him better advice than he's getting now :-))