pacing, mice ,ants and dissection

I taken to pacing the patch.....put in ten miles today......lost a few
pounds on me and the pumpkins ....I am having a major mouse attack ...they
first were in the tomato crop and now have there sites on bigger and better
things.....i have a question for my God....why are they only munching on
the 600+ i have plenty of small 200 hundred pounders and they don't touch
them......but i literally lost 5 pounds of pumpkin and sides of many of the
other 500-600...i fear there are 50 or more banding
together................or are they pocket gophers??.....well I did what
most conscientious pumpkin growers would do..... I freaked.... went to the
store and bought 30 mouse traps....and just smiled at the clerk as she said
"oh you must have a mouse problem".......yeah there eating my 600 pound
pumpkins....she just smile and said  "next"..............realizing i wasn't
making any points i hurried home to set them....so I whipped out the ole
peanut butter and started baiting the traps...........a couple of hours
later i checked them and there were nothing but sugar ants devouring the
butter.....so i'll have to re bait them........it was there on my knees
that it hit me.......i have lost it! It was then I had the idea to dissect
a smaller pumpkins stem and vine junction....in my findings i found that
the pumpkin is only being fed by half the vine and the other half goes back
to the main root.......after 29.ft of examining its is conclusive ....are
the secondaries solely on the same side as the pumpkin feeding the pumpkin?
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yours truly brock


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