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White Plains, NY

Please tell me how you have a STUMP on your pumpkin plant?

A 'STUMP' is the remains after felling a TREE!

Maybe you can call the remains of your pumpkin plant a stump 'AFTER' and only after you totally cut off the main vine at its base. Oh yea, then it would be Dead.

How about 'TRUNK' same number of letters and your plant is still Alive. Even Base will work.

OK so I don't like the term stump used in the pumpkin patch.

8/9/2008 12:09:37 PM

Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia

I like cheese

8/9/2008 1:01:57 PM

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Save this kind of stuff for winter, when there is nothing better to discuss.

8/9/2008 1:26:35 PM

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

It gets very boring when the snow is out...

8/9/2008 3:13:44 PM

Pembroke, New Hampshire

I'm STUMPed...what kind of cheese?

8/9/2008 4:05:54 PM

nOVA sCOTIA

I agree Jordan. Things are going to the dogs.

8/9/2008 4:08:58 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Better yet, maybe the Capt. should change his screen name to "The Stump"

8/9/2008 6:44:45 PM

Somers, CT

Beer and cheese are good. I like them both.

8/9/2008 6:51:43 PM

Kalamazoo, MI ([email protected])

Right there with ya Rob! Any kind of cheese is good. Too bad they're both bad for us...

8/9/2008 7:14:09 PM

Georgetown, Ontario

How about we meet in the middle and call it a STUNK...then everybody is happy.

8/9/2008 7:26:47 PM

Williamsburg,KY

I like beer too.

8/9/2008 8:53:39 PM

Rhode Island

if we start out calling our plant pattern a christmas tree why not have a stump? all trees have stumps? actually ill start calling my base a trunk, even though its not an elephant i like trunk better than stump.

8/10/2008 7:41:58 AM

nOVA sCOTIA

You learn something new everyday. Good one PAP.

8/10/2008 9:59:35 AM

Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia

Cheese is Grate! Pardon the Pun!

8/10/2008 12:52:50 PM

Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia

I am growing a flag pattern so mine must be a pole?

8/10/2008 12:55:42 PM

Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

Whats this about?.....I'm stumped again...

8/10/2008 2:32:28 PM

Rhode Island

is your stump short and fat ,long and skinny or a tiny weenie one?

8/10/2008 5:55:35 PM

Somers, CT

Stump envy?

8/10/2008 8:52:46 PM

[email protected]

Thank you Jim! This is one of my pet peeves with our hobby too.

"BASAL CROWN" is the correct nomenclature. However "base" or "crown" are both acceptable.

Like Jim said; a stump is a dead tree.

8/10/2008 11:00:27 PM

Darfield, British Columbia, Canada

Stump Cheese??

8/11/2008 12:33:54 AM

Westford, MA

Balto dragged a sled with a TRUNK, loaded with Serum & Milk to save the Pumpkins of Nome.
The hit so many STUMPS along the snowy trail, that the constant jostling turned the Serum to MILK and the Milk to CHEESE.
They injected the MILK to save the pumpkins.
Then partied with the CHEESE at the Weigh Off.
Hence the question always asked by non growers at weigh-offs.


Want some CHEESE???

And a "COLD ONE" THANKS!!

8/11/2008 9:56:32 AM

White Plains, NY

Pap, I'm sorry but we are forced to take your cooler away.

8/11/2008 12:05:09 PM

Minnesota

Me and my wife splurged at the shopping market the other day and bought some expensive cheese, it was like 10 dollars a pound (exp to me) and some summer sausage, along with some good crackers..you guessed it, I ate my meat, cheese & crackers and told my wife how good one of my pumpkins is growing....she gave me the backboard look..like, "are you done".

8/11/2008 1:57:03 PM

Minnesota

It was cheddar cheese from Ireland.

8/11/2008 1:58:03 PM

Minnesota

Hmmmm,,,maybe a cheese posting board?

8/11/2008 1:59:03 PM

Minnesota([email protected])

I'm partial to a good Swiss cheese.

8/11/2008 5:36:08 PM

Preston CT

I've lost my stump....and it is still growin

8/12/2008 11:08:55 AM