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First time growing horror story

	I thought I could add our experience to this thread.  Of course you have
all heard about our battle with US West.. Well, we won the battle but may
have lost the war.  We now have a huge/ugly cable running along our back
fence and it lays on the ground through the pumpkin patch.  I might add
that we sacrificed our giant sunflowers to save our patch!  One might think
that after such a long and drawn out ordeal that we might end up with
something to wave in the face of those darn telephone people as an "I told
you so!"  That would have been the icing on the cake.. But it is not going
to happen.  We have pumpkins, but they are all small.. Nothing even as big
as a basketball.. :(   We are fighting powdery mildew and bugs like mad,
but to no avail.. Looks like there will be nothing even close to a prize
winner in our patch..  Maybe I could blame this all on the warmer coast
waters?	
	I am thinking about buying the biggest pumpkin I can find and just placing
it among our vines so that the telephone people (they must be spying!) will
have something to look at anyway.. :)

Looking forward to next year!

Nikki

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