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Back of Beyond

Check out our lastest problem.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=24534

And the man said - "We are from the government and we are here to help you" - <g>. We've had mosaic virus, abnormal heat, aborts of almost everything, leaf burn from the sun ... you name it ... and now we have a bug that won't let us move anything off the property.

7/28/2004 1:52:59 PM

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Look at the bright side. You probably always wanted to organize a neighborhood GPC sanctioned Giant Pumpkin Weigh-off.

Now you have the perfect reason to get it together.

7/28/2004 3:46:35 PM

Hendersonville, NC

wow! That really sucks. I am so sorry. Any idea how those little buggers found their way into your garden?

7/28/2004 4:13:02 PM

Back of Beyond

Steve,

Great idea ... lol. I can just see it now - "Bring me your tired, your sick, your poor (your bug ridden, virus addled, heat stressed) AG for a GPC almost-sanctioned weigh off in part of Orange County, CA. And don't forget - we're from the government and we are here to help you ..lol.

7/28/2004 4:35:08 PM

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"we're from the government and we are here to help you kill pumpkins"

Don't feel too bad. I just came back from my son's elementary school where Cucumber Beetles have finished the government assault lauched by municipal lawn mowers a few weeks ago.

"we're from the government and we are here to help you cut the grass"

Since pesticides are not allowed at school (I can do it legally but some Municipal Employees think they know the law better than me).

"we're from the government and we are here to protect you from yourself by thinking for you"

So the untreatable Cucumber Beetles delivered bacterial Wilt for the ultimate in government sponsored Pumpkin Patch Bio Terrorism.

"we're from the government and we are here to help you waste your time & dash the dreams of our town's youth in the name of junk science & unsubstantiated emotional claims based on unfounded & unscientific findings of emoting do-gooder people with more time on their hands than brains in their heads."

God help us all.

7/28/2004 5:01:29 PM

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Government sponsored Pumpkin Bio-Terrorism link:

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=24622

7/28/2004 5:08:03 PM

Indiana

just spray your whole property with warrior or triazicide, and also with something like provado......that will gurantee that you have no bugs haha.

Tom

7/28/2004 5:28:49 PM