For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 08, 2019

good one, Mrs. Enjo

Ah, men’s love is fickle. Good thing Mrs Enjo is not jealous.

So…Keith Enjo used to tell Carol that he admired her shape and her perfect coloring? It sounds like they had problems long before he started growing pumpkins.

A vegetable talking to a vegetable.

Pass the pumpkin pie…muffins, butter, soup & the list goes on…lol. :^)

So, what’s going to happen when it’s time to eat Mr. Enjo’s “Pride and Joy”?

It’s the great pumpkin!!

From the looks not even close. You need 1800 pounds to even get close to first.

Which Fall Fair you going to?

I saw a plastic/rubber pumpkin that you can carve-no mess, no slimy seeds. Can’t use a real candle, just a tea light. It will not rot, won’t break into pieces, keep from year to year. What will they think of next?

a lesson on the pumpkin—-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin

Lynn’s Comments:

When we lived in Lynn Lake, Manitoba, the growing season was so short that people would sprout vegetables in their houses, and when it was safe to do so, would transfer them to heated tents outdoors. We called these determined folks “the intense gardeners.” Every year, we had a vegetable growing contest and one year, first prize went to an enormous cabbage proudly submitted by our friend, Thelma. She was soon accused of having purchased the celebrated choux in Winnipeg and smuggling it north for the fair. A loud and frenzied fight had to be broken up right there in the community centre. Yes, if there wasn’t enough entertainment in the north…we made our own.

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It’s a great pumpkin but it’s not the Great Pumpkin ! Right, Linus?

I have noticed that the biggest gourds rarely taste very good. However, they are not grown for flavor, they are grown for favorite.

Do we ever really know what goes on between gardeners and their vegetables?

The pumpkin is not a vegetable. It’s fruit.

So Keith would tell his wife she has perfect coloring? lol!

My Driver’s Ed teacher liked to show off his Pride and Joy. It was a picture of two bottles of dish detergent.

How did they grow something of that size?Maybe eating all that zucchini caused the Enjos to make a considerable amount of human fertilizer.

Ah, the sweet nothings that a pumpkin wants to hear to grow to be a prize winner… I’ve heard the winning growers on radio or TV disclose exact same “secrets”…