Rot at the Stump

There's no rest in the sport of competitive pumpkin growing. No timeouts, like there are in wussy sports like football and professional wrestling.

Today's issue is Stump Integrity. I knew the stump had been stressed straighting out the vine and had some minor cracks in it. But yesterday, I saw some gunk that looked like a squash borer was eating away in there. NO!!!!!!

Here's a picture after I injected insecticide into the vine. (It's blue because I use the syringe to try to refill ink cartridges during the off-season. Now there's an activity ALMOST as stupid as growing giant pumpkins.)






















After that, let's coat it with Sevin, an insecticide dust.






















That shouldhold the bugs back for a while!