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Frank and Tina

South East

Tell us some of the things you would have never done before you strated in this hobby of growing giant things....

"I would have never stopped at the dumpster today and put that baby mattress in the truck that someone threw away cause it had a rip in it LoL... Hey not only is that a perfect melon cushion so we can take the melon to the weigh off safely, it was free"... :)

9/17/2010 11:30:26 PM

ArvadaBoy

Midway, UT

I wouldn't have called a vacation a trip out to Topsfield one year and to Oregon the next year to see some giants.

9/17/2010 11:38:56 PM

October Bandit

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

I would have NEVER stopped at the farmers house down the road and bartered his 6 yard pile of aged angus manure for a case of Bud Light and 2 bags of venison!! :)

9/17/2010 11:39:49 PM

OkieGal

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Got over my fear enough of arachnids to kill my own, even when they have little red hourglasses on their undersides

Collect plastic hangers all winter and snap the elbows off

Hand out garbage bags to neighbors and friends that have maple leaves, heck, rake yards for free for maple leaves

Visit the rolloff the week after christmas and do a Don Young (gut couches for foam and gods, scored three hideabed mattress foams!)

Turn down an eternity band.

Shovel manure when it wasn't an animal care chore...

Found this website

Made lots of new friends

Get off my miraclegro fixation

Think a 500# pumpkin was tiny

Run a weighoff

9/17/2010 11:48:42 PM

EndlessTrail

Fresno, CA

Put a fan outside my house.

Get up early in the morning.

Watch how long it takes water to percolate into my soil.

Spend more than 30 minutes at a time doing yardwork.

Ask someone if I could have their fallen leaves.

9/18/2010 12:58:36 AM

Bry

Glosta

1)Try to understand te inner workings of a vegetable

2)Watch the weather forecast like it was the super bowl

3)Consider a high water bill a normal occurance

4)Talk to pumpkins

5)know the safe re-entry time for 10 plus chemicals

6)view all animal activity as "Hostile action"

9/18/2010 6:18:41 AM

Nana Rea

Massillon, Ohio

Squish beetles with my bare hands!

9/18/2010 11:42:34 AM

Kurbisfreak

Germany

- usind a lifting block
- chaffing pumpkin leaves and vines

9/18/2010 12:56:01 PM

Ron Rahe ([email protected])

Cincinnati,OH

Buy a pumpkin seed that costs more than a keg of beer.

9/18/2010 3:55:35 PM

OkieGal

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Yeah Bryan, talk weather with the farmers and make them look like pikers (yes I looked to see when the wind is supposed to switch even!)

9/18/2010 4:11:45 PM

Urban_farmer

Denver, Co.

Go out cruising for pallets at dusk on a Saturday night( I found 3 nice ones too)...this evening!

9/18/2010 10:51:18 PM

Frank and Tina

South East

Looks like Im not the only one Dumpster diving..lol....

9/18/2010 10:59:00 PM

TNTammy

Middle TN

I would never have chased down a truck load of poop

I would never have set my alarm clock for pumpkin sex

I would never have asked for a tiller for Mothers Day

I would never have begged, pleaded and prayed for a pumpkin

9/18/2010 11:03:50 PM

Monster Grower

Redmond, Washington; U.S.A.

I would have never responded to this thread. lol

9/18/2010 11:19:11 PM

DARKY (Steve)

Hobbiton New Zealand

I would never have known this web site ever existed

9/19/2010 6:15:31 AM

pumpkinJesus

The bottom of New Jersey

Use hydrogen peroxide on a plant. And be amazed at how well it works!

9/19/2010 8:43:31 AM

LKeys

Salem, NY

I would never have caught a skunk in a hav-a-heart trap and figured out how to dispose of it!

9/19/2010 10:27:37 AM

Whidbey

Whidbey Island

Would have never bartered for alpaca manure.

9/19/2010 12:07:20 PM

ZAPPA

Western PA

Have a trail worn into my yard from checking on them so much.

9/19/2010 3:44:02 PM

cntryboy

East Jordan, MI

LOL Zappa, Me TOO!

9/19/2010 9:04:06 PM

Richard

Minnesota

Start talking about a pumpkin to someone and they think your nuts, spoken with passion and conviction,,the of are you serious, and I think this guys nuts, off the deep end.

9/19/2010 9:58:16 PM

giant pumpkin peep

Columbus,ohio

Not see alpaca poo scooping as barn work but seeing it as collecting fertilizer. We own alpacas and work on the farms the ones we own are boarded on.

9/19/2010 10:14:40 PM

Joe Z

Finksburg, Md

Spending more time on this site than anything else.

9/20/2010 8:24:37 PM

VIpmkn

Vancouver Island

I would have never explained "pumpkin sex" to my middle school students.

I would never have had to beg permission from my professors to leave in the middle of a master's degree seminar to have pumpkin sex.

9/23/2010 1:25:56 AM

big pumpkin dreamer

Gold Hill, Oregon

nothing like pumpkin sex early in the morning to start the off!!!!!!!!

10/1/2010 6:23:43 AM

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