Countdown to Halloween: Trauma Time

The vines are gone, the pumpkin is picked. Even I'll admit a growing pumpkin is a lot more interesting than a ripe pumpkin just laying around taking up space.

But that's rot in the stem. And see the hole to the left? Is Bessie about to be compost?






There were two borers in the stem. All weekend I've slowly cut off rot until I'm about out of stem. The white stuff is caulk, where I kept trying to plug the hole. And the caulk just keeps oozing right back out. Georgia humidity doesn't help.









56 days until halloween? Gulp.

Don't tell the Pharmacist's Association I'm misusing the "Oral Use Only" syringes. I'm injecting a combination of fungicide and insectice into the hole.