Natural Selection

Disregarding much protestation, and even a wholly unjustified accusation of 'PUMPKIN MURDERER!', Gobby insisted that, despite his hard work and alleged gardening induced blister, the pitiful shoots clinging on to life in Tattoo's grossly oversized bucketful of slurry were plainly not an example of pumpkin seedlings.

And, despite his ridiculous and unsubstantiated scepticism, Tattoo finally deigned to bow to the rest of the Regulars' hitherto superior pumpkin growing techniques with his remaining seeds, allaying his unfounded suspicions and resorting to the unmiraculous tried and tested method of a propagation tray and compost.

Sure enough, within days, as pumpkin seedlings began to emerge, on enquiring if their appearance was distinctly different form the sprinkling of weeds displayed above Gobby managed to tease out the reluctant confession of,

"Slightly."