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Your husband bends over to smell/check out the goods, AKA compost and you are writing a check to pay for it. Two signs that you might be a Pumpkin Grower. :)

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3/26/2010 7:15:50 PM

Okla

You might be a pumpkin grower if you notice that everytime you get on the computer it is to check out bigpumpkins.com.

3/26/2010 7:49:50 PM

West Chazy,N.Y.

you might be a pumpkin grower if! you drive aroud and look at everyone's garden to see if they are growing giant pumpkins

3/26/2010 8:11:04 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

You might be a Giant Pumpkin Grower if you...

Buy property because it has a chunk already fenced to put a new patch in, the shop is a bonus.
Go past the his choice to sit on the 25hp one when talking lawn-garden tractor with Suffering Better Half.
Trade computer dinking for a receiver hitch so you can pull your trailer.
Reinstall your old CRT monitor because that's part of your perfected sprouting technique.
Spend the tax refund plus about 3x more on 'upgrades, new stuff, vitally needed supplies' at extremepumpkinstore.com
Have Suffering Better Half open freezer, see all the nukeomat food and he groans with "Patch Season ALREADY!?!?!????"
Go clean thrift store out of all the old blankets, comforters, sheets, and serrated paring knives.
Schedule vacation time/trips around patch needs.
Have to label the drinking water containers with pumpkin goos and the iced tea so as not to get a glass of SURPRISE!
Post to a post like this.

3/26/2010 8:12:51 PM

Macomb County

You're on a first name basis with everyone at your local garden centers.

3/26/2010 8:25:17 PM

3 acre corner in Whittaker,Mi USA ([email protected])

You might be a giant pumpkin grower if....All winter you drive by the same farm taking your kids to school and watching the manure pile grow out in the pasture and telling your kids...."that's gonna be all mine soon!"
...............seriously....this is a true story!!!

3/26/2010 8:25:44 PM

Picton,ON ([email protected])

If everybody in town knows you as "The Pumpkin Guy".

3/26/2010 9:29:14 PM

Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia

If you are known as somewhat of an oddity to your neighbors and you are constantly making deals with your other half to keep the dream alive.

3/26/2010 9:35:12 PM

Ohio

If when your son tells you that when he tried to tell some of his school freinds where he lived and one of the kids answers back, "oh I know where you live, its that crazy garden house." (true story) LOL.

3/26/2010 9:43:59 PM

Riverton, WY

If you carry recipe cards around every fall explaining why you don't do it, and hand one out to everyone that asks you if you feed them milk......ok, I don't do that, but it's a thought....

3/26/2010 9:50:31 PM

West Chazy,N.Y.

you might be a giant pumpkin grower if... everyone you work with ask when does the pumpkin pool start.

3/26/2010 9:58:31 PM

you might be pumpkin grower if you and your daughter look at your pumpkin seeds everyday throughout the day :-)

3/27/2010 12:49:39 AM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

I don't feed *them* milk, I feed *me* milk so I'm healthy enough to pull weeds so it can grow that big! [putting this on a teeshirt to save time!]

When people stop you and ask you for tomato or pumpkin seeds so they can win the weighoffs (true) when you go downtown.

3/27/2010 1:37:12 AM

Georgetown, Ontario

....when financing, home inspection, and soil sample are all condition on your home buying offer.

3/27/2010 7:22:47 AM

Buffalo, new York, USA

good one Pumpkin Shepherd! LOL

3/27/2010 8:35:29 AM

Joliet, IL

...you have a 14' diameter 12' tall geodescent dome plastic greenhouse up in March in the center of a yard that no longer contains any grass.

3/27/2010 9:12:14 AM

Middle TN

.... on a shopping trip with your sister, sitting at at intersection, you see a steaming truck load of compost go by and follow it to find out where you can get some! (true story)

3/27/2010 9:24:12 AM

South East

...if you know what all of these are AGGC, NPK, GPC, AG's, PM, LG's, OVGPG.....

3/27/2010 9:39:39 AM

Quebec

if you make foot deep ruts in your lawn to get a truck load of compost to a new garden

3/27/2010 9:57:23 AM

Connecticut, USA

If you really get excited and pay money to have large amounts of rotted animal poop brought to your house.

3/27/2010 10:09:04 AM

[email protected]

If you will trade your undergarments or spend hours baking cookies for a seed

3/27/2010 11:03:55 AM

Frankfort Ohio

I have a good one its when the neighbers tell people to fallow the hellicopters flying around the silver dome tarps with orange fence around his property!

3/27/2010 12:04:33 PM

Mt.Pleasant,Iowa

Thats Good Eddy.I like that.They are all great story's and I can relate to them all but the undergarments.

3/27/2010 12:46:53 PM

[email protected]

You best ask the Cooks on this one LOL

3/27/2010 12:51:14 PM

West Chazy,N.Y.

you might be a giant pumpkin grower if...you get exctied when someone says "growem big"

3/27/2010 6:50:04 PM

West Chazy,N.Y.

you might be a giant pumpkin grower if....you say "Mine's bigger than yer's"

3/27/2010 6:51:30 PM

South East

You might be a giant pumpkin grower if.... you decided to go pee outside instead of going inside cause it would take too much time away from the patch work your doing.... :) I know you are smiling right now cause you've done it too..lol

3/27/2010 7:03:19 PM

West Chazy,N.Y.

you might be a giant pumpkin grower if......you look at the veggie packs to see if they have a new brand of pumpkins when ever you go into a store.

3/27/2010 7:20:03 PM

Cedar City, Ut

when hubby cant come to see you cause no-one will tend the patch!!lol

3/27/2010 7:21:08 PM

West Chazy,N.Y.

you might be a giant pumpkin grower if......you ask all the restaurants in the area to save you their coffee grounds for the patch.

3/27/2010 7:22:18 PM

West Chazy,N.Y.

you might be a giant pumpkin grower if.... you ask all the
restaurants to save the scraps for your compost pile.

3/27/2010 7:23:46 PM

Columbus,ohio

You might be a pumpkin grower if you druve by a herd of livestock and think about where they put the manure

or

You think about events hapening in ouctober before the season begins.( True story, there is a big alpaca auction the weekend of sogpg weigh-off and oakland park)

3/27/2010 8:25:21 PM

Murfreesboro, TN, USA

If your next door neighbor asks "are you done stinking up the neighborhood?"

3/27/2010 9:01:20 PM

West Chazy,N.Y.

you might be a giant pumpkin grower if ....you keep commin back to this post to see if there is any new ones you didn't know about and to see how many times you post.........now ya know you got it bad!!!!

3/27/2010 9:09:57 PM

Denver, Co.

Your neighbors start asking about your Jack-o-lanterns in August!
OR
The neighborhood kids call you the PUNKIN MAN!!
AND
The trick or treaters are just as disappointed as you are by a crop failure!!! (all true)

3/27/2010 10:50:03 PM

Anchorage Alaska

you might be one ..if you have to use a snowblower to clear your patch 3 weeks before planting, plug in 200 ft of ground thawing cable ,run 4 1500 watt heaters.inside a mini hoop house inside your greenhouse,carry your seedlings up to 3 weeks in 7 gallon pots under 1500 watt grow lights, while waiting for soil temps to rise for transplanting ,then try not to look at your electricy bill for a couple of months ...and still be excited about it ...lol..

3/27/2010 11:31:21 PM

canal winchester ohio

you give each of your boys a chainsaw, point to the orange boulders in your yard & tell'em to go at it.

3/27/2010 11:44:13 PM

Hobbiton New Zealand

cause a cyclist to fall off their bike as they ride past your patch. (I have claimed a few and it just as funny the 4th time)

3/28/2010 4:49:53 AM

Ohio

if your in your semi muddy patch in the morning ,a hour before it gets light outside in your pressed officers uniform and polished shoes, rushing around getting all muddy trying to pollinate female flowers by prying them open in the pitch dark, and because you cant find a regular flash light and that looking around for one would make you late for work, you decide to use a mini key chain flash light that you carry with your car keys to use that only has a really tiny blue beam to where you cant see squat anyway, and in the end it makes you end up being late for work anyway . LOL

3/28/2010 5:24:39 AM

South East

LOL Brooks..

3/28/2010 12:55:09 PM

Breslau, Ontario, Canada

You move to another house clear across the city and you take the soil from the patch with you...I'm seriously considering this.

3/28/2010 1:50:39 PM

Ohio

lol John!,,, Brett Hester has done that,,LOL!!

3/28/2010 2:43:17 PM

Pumpkintown, SC

You might be a giant pumpkin grower if:
Everywhere you drive, the numbers in everyones street addresses remind you of specific seeds...

3/28/2010 9:11:45 PM

New Zealand

you know your a genuine pumpkin grower when you ask your missus to pose on your pumpkin in a bikini and she says yes!

3/29/2010 2:14:31 AM

bliss,n.y.- heart of Wyoming County

You might be a giant pumpkin grower if " I give up!" is not in your vocabulary!!

3/29/2010 7:55:37 AM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

You might be a giant pumpkin grower if your Suffering Better Half asks you if you want a ring for your anniversary, and you say YES a lifting ring. (true story, I got the lifting ring for my 27th-who needs diamonds?)

3/29/2010 8:45:11 AM

Westford, MA

All your on-line and work passwords are (fruit Weight)and
(Grower's Name), example: "1726 Kearns"!!!
WOOHOO!!! Yeah Baby!!!

3/29/2010 9:12:47 AM

Western NY

I did that John. moved it about 30 miles.

3/29/2010 10:17:40 AM

[email protected]

You drive along seeing pumpkins in mailboxes....

example; 1725, 998, 1389, 898, 723, etc....

3/29/2010 10:34:39 AM

Eastern Pennsylvania

You accept a job offer in a different state with the stipulation being that the salary had to be enough to allow you to purchase a nice house with a yard big enough for several pumpkins.

After you accept the job you go house hunting and settle on one based on it's full southern sun exposure and the fact that the neighborhood stands on an old PA dutch farm.

I did this in 2006.

3/29/2010 1:34:52 PM

Preston CT

Tremor, the mail box thing is true....i see 1600-1800's on the way home

You also never want to take summer vacations...

3/29/2010 1:55:57 PM

Little-TON - Colorado

You might be a Pumpkin Grower if you haZ a brother named BiZZy LiZZy.......

3/29/2010 4:21:13 PM

Cleveland,TN

If you have actually TASTED Worm Tea..

3/29/2010 7:02:30 PM

Cornelius, Oregon

If you move your patch when you move, yes I did do that, but less known is the fact that I moved it back....

If your idea of a christmas tree is your mailbox.

If you remeber things by what your pumpkins were in any given year. "Oh that happened the year I grew the ..."

If you can talk about pollination without cracking a smile from all the inuendo.

3/30/2010 5:31:39 PM

San Luis Obispo, Ca.

If you question if.....

3/31/2010 12:12:15 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

You are standing in the middle of the remaining disaster of the future patch with your Suffering Better Half (and competition this year) and settle an arguement over which spot they get by holding up the rake and declaring ">YOU< clean it you CAN have that spot." (pause) "And no 'regifting' re-piling either!"

3/31/2010 9:56:16 PM

Middle TN

If when you hear the word 'bubble' you DONT think of a sphere of soapy water

4/1/2010 8:35:53 AM

Marion,IN

you try justifying watching Don Young on the Tonight Show by telling your wife and 2 boys, "c'mon it'll be good quality family time!!" It worked, we all watched and I'm still happy we were all present to see the event!.

Mark G.

4/1/2010 12:36:47 PM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

You use your spare bath tub to store chemicals over the winter.

4/1/2010 8:02:28 PM

Denver, Co.

You have more than one T-shirt from Big Pumpkins.com!

4/1/2010 9:04:02 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

The high school colors are black and orange so you wear your GPC PumpkinTour tee to events because it looks like one of the school sports/pride tees.

4/2/2010 3:27:44 AM

Gold Hill, Oregon

pollinating. git'er done!!!

4/4/2010 3:56:53 AM

Gold Hill, Oregon

took the night off work so i could get up early and drive 8 hours to see don's lecture. got lost in the big city of sacremento. drove around and around for an hour before i found the meeting place. got to the meeting(tailend) in time to see grave digger killing the 1658. cool. but missed the most important part: (dons lecture). spent the next 7 hours driving home. lol. i did get to thank him personally for sending me some of his seeds out of his own pocket money which i was very thankful for. "thank you again don"

4/4/2010 4:22:56 AM