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Re: Urban growers?

Hi All,

My main patch is 40 X 56 or 2,249 sq. ft., two plants with one back up on
the side. I just finished hand spading another 1200 sq feet on the other
side of the yard, to which I have added 5 yards of compost for a very
special 1006 seed. 

This has yet to be tilled as my roto tiller called in sick and I just
picked it up from the repair shop.

The later location has great sun and terrific wind protection from a
hedgerow of English Laurels which are about 10 ft. high.

If they live, after all the roots I dug up!

In addition I have been spending the late evenings sprinkling all of our
town planter boxes with large quantities of Atlantic Giant Pumpkin seeds.

I figure the town planter boxes are very well tended, watered, weeded and
regularly fertilized, in addition to having great soil, so if all else
fails I can rely on the local Town Box, as a back up pumpkin resource!

Only problem is how do you keep everybody's dog from whizzing on your
pumpkin?

Chris Andersen
Moraga, Calif.
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> From: troy nayler <troy.nayler@odyssey.on.ca>
> To: pumpkins@athenet.net; Bill Verchere <billv@mail.island.net>
> Subject: Re: Urban growers?
> Date: Monday, April 21, 1997 10:29 AM
> 
> My plot is 30 feet long by 25 feet wide (that is small) And there is a
tree
> that blocks the sun from my garden for about 4 hours during the
afternoon.
> 
> Troy.
> Ingersoll Ont.
> 
> http://www.odyssey.on.ca/~troy.nayler/ 
> Home of World Wide Pumpkins home page.
> 
> ----------
> > From: Bill Verchere <billv@mail.island.net>
> > To: pumpkins@athenet.net
> > Subject: Urban growers?
> > Date: Sunday, April 20, 1997 6:36 PM
> > 
> > Just what I've been waiting for these past dreary months... News from
the
> 
> > first (northern hemisphere) adventurous pumpkin planters of 1997! .
> > 
> > Here on the west coast of Canada I'll wait a couple of weeks more yet, 
> > though. My sprouting chamber has been set up, and the patch has been
> limed, 
> > manured, and composted. Ready and raring to go!
> > 
> > Are there any other urban growers out there? My city plot is
> embarassingly
> > small, and I'd like to compare notes on how you manage.
> > 
> > Lets lobby for a new record category - the biggest pumpkin in the
> smallest
> > space! 
> > 
> > 
> > Bill Verchere                     
> > billv@island.net           http://www.island.net/~billv/
> >
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