Cornfield Pumpkins
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Cornfield Pumpkins
- From: H* E* P*
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 22:10:59 -0700
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pumpkins@mallorn.com wrote:
>
> Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: AG Germplasm
> Hello Harold. You sure are a wealth information, nice to have you
> on the list. I was wondering, what is the weight of the largest
> pumpkin you've ever grown? Thanks.
I keep trying to make it clear that, I have never planted an AG seed,
but I will in 1999. I have merely been trying to answer routine genetics
and virology questions which I have some experience with.
Biggest pumpkin I have grown was about 30 or 40 pounds. I am guessing
from the problen carrying it. I have never weighed a pumpkin.
As kid on the farm, we added pumpkin seeds to the fertilzer in the
corn planter. The pumpkins grew in the corn rows. After cutting corn by
hand, we drove the horses and wagon between each row of corn shocks and
picked up the pumpkins which were mostly a pink skinned cultivar. We ate
some of them but mostly we fed them to the dairy cows and hoped they did
not choke. Occassionaly one coughed, but none was ever in serious
trouble.
We threw the pumpkins over the fence to the cows and then we in the
pen and hacked them to slices with a corn machette.
--
Harold Eddleman Ph.D. Microbiologist. i*@disknet.com
Location: Palmyra IN USA; 36 kilometers west of Louisville, Kentucky
http://www.disknet.com/indiana_biolab
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