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Lebanon Junction , Ky

what can you do for a scratch..anything?????stupid kid stuck his finger nail in my baby...first scratch. could have strangled him. he did it before i could even say don....you would think he could of keeped his little grubby hands off it..kid needs good ol fashion over the knee butt whipping..

8/6/2001 3:29:43 PM

Connecticut, USA

Quick!

Count to 10...

8/6/2001 4:07:36 PM

Lebanon Junction , Ky

already counted to 100..the bad part he just felt it at first then he pushed his finger nail into it .oh well guess I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed that it dont get no deseases.lucky he wasn't my kid or he'd be grounded for life!!!

WHAT IS CAPTAN???????

8/6/2001 4:22:29 PM

Commack, NY

captan is a fungicide in a powder form. i use sulphur, also a fungicide. just dust a little on the nail mark, it will be fine

scott

8/6/2001 4:59:07 PM

Ga.

what can you do for a scratch..anything?????stupid kid stuck his finger nail in my baby...first scratch. could have strangled him. he did it before i could even say don....you would think he could of keeped his little grubby hands off it..kid needs good ol fashion over the knee butt whipping..



Give the kid a break,,,hehe,,cant be no worse than mine,,1 has adhd and the 3 year old just loves to pick things in dad's garden and bring them to daddy to show him,,,hehe,,if my babies make it thru the tons of water we have had in last 2 days,,,,,I would die if he picked one of them,,,I try to keep him away,,but you know how kids are,,,not laughing at you coxs creek,,,but I bet you and I were the same,,,gosh,,,wish I were a kid again,,,hehe

8/6/2001 5:45:02 PM

Long Island,New York

If a single nail scratch has you in such a tizzie, then don't even consider entering into a fair or contest where it stays overnight or a few days. People just dont believe they are real so they must check...with a tug on the stem (which breaks off) and a scratch with the nail (which mars the pumpkin). Some fair officials feel they "own" your pumpkin because of a small cash prize.I've been called a "real mean man" by some mother who had three kids climbing on my pumpkin before it was weighed at my local GPC weighoff. I asked her nicely to please keep the kids off my pumpkin before its weighed. I havent been back to that weighoff and have no plans on returning......

8/6/2001 5:59:14 PM

Lebanon Junction , Ky

i dont think it will be ready for any fairs around here..but if i had it in one i'd probably sleep over with it.anyway i feel alot better now found out it ain't as bad as i thought..had visions of little aj deflating also i threw back a couple of cold ones for the nerves..

8/6/2001 6:08:08 PM

Utah

do as farmer scott suggested- and you'll be fine.

last year i scratched one of mine . i accidentally did it while moving it, trying to get a better vine position. the pumpkin was small like 30-50 lbs. it was on the under side so i didn't do a thing and it turned out fine. interesting though was that by the end of the year the scar was 3 1/2 to 4 inches long and 1/2 inch wide. just so you know incase you get a big scar.

gordon

8/6/2001 6:31:35 PM

derry n.h u.s.a.

HI NEW@IT:
I put a blanket over my pumpkin a week or two ago due to the cold nights then.I forgot my cat sleeps on this blanket in the basement,Well guess what he slept on it in the garden on top of the pumpkin AND MEEDED THE DOE.I could have left him in a have a heart trap for a week after that but let him out only after 24hrs HEHE. He put 8 or 10 claw marks in it i was p#$$+D.So i dont cover the pumpkin with a blanket anymore.And alls well with the pumpkin the scars are a 1\4 of an " now and growing.John G...

8/7/2001 2:35:58 PM

Greencastle, PA

"real mean" they could have crused your pumpkin! I'd say that's an overreaction. All kids aren't like that, I'm 12 and I don't do such things, however in december I will be the most dreaded creature on the planet. That's right, A teenager, and my mind will be warped and I will find lots of pleasure in destroing things. Not the pumpkins ofcorse, that would be horrible!

8/7/2001 3:17:59 PM

Greencastle, PA

Butt whipping? Oh my gosh you're sutch a brutal man. although he did scratch your pumpkin.

8/7/2001 3:20:26 PM

Charlotte, North Carolina

I am a teenager too, I'm almost 15.

-Maximus

8/7/2001 3:22:16 PM

Greencastle, PA

teenagers are cruel they scratch pumpkins for fun, we should beat them with sticks, they're horrible little people! except my girlfreind ofcorse, she's the worlds only sane teenager. there will be two sane teenagers after 12/5, or not you never know what these pumpkins will do to you.

8/7/2001 3:25:10 PM

Charlotte, North Carolina

Teenagers don't only scratch pumpkins for fun, you should see my school! There are long streaks of scratches all over the lockers and walls from students keys or straightened paperclips and pen graffiti everywhere, if you think that is bad you should see the wooden tables in my science class!

-P.

8/7/2001 3:46:23 PM

Long Island,New York

Kids are kids...curious mostly, not destructive by nature. Its the parent who should have known better...and the one with the obnoxious attitude. The kids are tomorrows growers...I've donated 400-500lber to schools to promote interest and science, and offered spare giant pumpkins for "touching" just to keep the good ones good. It works....but sometimes they just gotta pull the stem.....!........................G

8/7/2001 5:53:58 PM

Greencastle, PA

Another sane teenager, he grows pumpkins he's perfectly normal! It's the dawn of a new era! Stem pulling, how sinnful! I live down the street from a public highschool, sometimes I fear for my life when I wear my straw hat in my garden.

8/7/2001 9:34:26 PM

Omaha, NE

I hope my son (9 also ADD) develops more of an interest in gardening. The other night he told me he "loves gardening, but only loves the fun parts, like digging the holes, planting the seeds, and covering them up, then watching it grow". He refers to the blood, sweat and tears that I do in the garden as "his Pumpkins". Momma prunes, pollinates (fighting the bees, I am allergic too), waters, sprays fertilizer and kills the bugs, he shows all of his friends his pumpkins, and asks why aren't the bigger, how big are they going to get? How come there are scratches on that one (from the leaves)? And he is the one who wanted to plant pumpkins, adn the reason I am working on 6 plants right now.

Sorry I seemed to have rambled a bit. I have been working for the last two weeks straight at work, developing the training material, teaching the class the same material the next morning, then coming home to work in the heat 95-100 in the patch. Sometimes I wish it was September and it was almost over, or at the heat was...Karen

8/8/2001 11:50:02 PM