The first thing I notice is that you're growing your pumpkins in a field of thick weeds and grass. That's not necessarily too bad as long as you have a large cultivated area at the main stem for them to draw from, but I don't see that either. Basically, your pumpkins are competing for survival with some very fierce competitors. This is a fight you won't win. I also see some powdery white spotting which is Powdery Mildew, a natural enemy of squashes but generally only a problem for weakened plants. A few fertilizers spread the base is not what your pumpkins need. They need room to spread their roots. I would suggest a deeply cultivated and composted 4' x 4' weed-free area to start each pumpkin. And that's the minimum. The more area of moist, fertile soil they have to spread across, the better off they will be. Additionally, you may or may not be having problems with Squash Vine Borers (SVB). I don't have those where I live and know little about them. But from what I understand they are *very* nasty and hard to avoid. You may want to research that a bit.

I've had the same problem this year with my basement. For weeks all I could think of was "A River Runs Through It" or "Waterworld". :-) Tomatoes hate being waterlogged. Moreso than most plants. You could always stick your finger (or a stick) in the ground it see if it's soggy down around the roots. Or, if you pull up one of the plants, check to see that the ground is not waterlogged around the roots. If it is, that is likely the problem. I doubt anything leached from the roof into the water and killed the plants. We are down to some of the most likely suspects: 1. Water - way too much or way too little. 2. Herbicides -- either sprayed nearby and drifted unto the plants, or in the manure (or soil, if brought in). However, I would expect to see deformed and stunted foliage prior to death. Looking at the dead leaves, it's hard to detect any distortion in the foliage. The wilting leaves don't look distorted. 3. Disease. There are several diseases that can cause wilting, but disease is not obvious from the photo. Afterthought: Since your sedum looks unhealthy also, did you use cow manure on that too? Many farms use pasture pesticides that pass right through grazers' digestive systems and into the manure unchanged. Then we take the manure, dress our gardens, and it causes our plants to die or at least struggle. When getting manure or soil or compost, it would probably be a good idea to ask which pesticides they are using in their pasture. Then use accordingly. Link to an article below - just in case it applies to your situation (which is hard to discern). Here is a link that might be useful: Herbicide Carryover

lyban- That's right, you do need to download and install the plugin. If you did that install correctly, you'll know it in the next steps: -outline the cropping rectangle -go into the Options menu and choose "JPG Lossless Crop" -if the plugin was installed correctly, a small window should come up which gives you the choice of a new file name, or the existing file name, for the crop, and shows you where it will be saved (take note of that location). Choose "new file name" and hit "Start." You won't see anything until you go to the Open file option at the top of the main Irfanview window, and select the file you just cropped (which will have the name "crop" in it). Then open it up in Irfanview and you can then print it the size you want from there. If you get confused by what to choose when the print window opens up, I can walk you through that, too. Lastly, it sounds like the Kodak program may not want to print below a certain quality, so if you want to try to print the second picture I cropped for you, print it using Irfanview. Before you print the picture, you can manipulate things like contrast, etc., in another program first; just save it when you're done and go back to Irfanview to print it so you can avoid your printing problem. Just bear in mind that you're taking a pretty small portion of a much bigger picture, so it won't be razor-sharp, but will look as good as it appears above. Stick with it, you're making progress. Let me know what happens next.

Sharon, Windows Live Photo Gallery (along with a host of others including Picassa and Apple's iPhoto) do what's called "non destructive" editing. The original image is preserved and any editing taking place within the application. So you have your original, unedited photo if you need it. There is also a button in the upper of right of Windows Live Photo Gallery that says something like "revert to orginal" that may help you get back to where you started. Otherwise make a copy of your image file outside of Windows Live Photo Gallery and when you reopen Windows Live Photo Gallery, you'll have another image to work with. Many of the current photo editors also crop to maintain the aspect ratio of the image. You may have noticed that the cropping tool wants to get, for example, narrower as you make the image shorter. There's usually a way to turn that off, but I don't know where that is in Windows Live Photo Gallery. I've used Windows Live Photo Gallery and thought it worked pretty well for minor adjustments.