RE: Wool over the eyes

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• Subject: RE: Wool over the eyes
• From: &* W* <c*@hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:56:09 -0600
• List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)

If you want good INSULATION from both heat and cold, try a
blanket and then a tarp over that.

From: "Toby" <mr-sprout@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: pumpkins@hort.net
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Subject: RE: Wool over the eyes
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:22:00 -0700

I would like to echo question #2-3, since I am battling dry, high heat,
too.

#2... Can a blanket cook your fruit?

#3... I am especially wondering if my plants will fare better if I
provide partial shade for the entire plant.  They seem to be stressed
from the heat all the time.

Toby

mr-sprout@sbcglobal.net

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of kathie morgan
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 8:53 AM
To: Hort Pumpkins
Subject: Wool over the eyes

List,
Only faithful Bill Garvey responded to my question about covering your
pumpkin with wool, and he didn't know. It seems to me that wool will
gather
moisture about it and rot the fruit, but I don't know. Has anyone tried
it?

Question 2 on the same subject: Some growers keep their fruit covered
day
and night, even in hot places in hot weather.
I am curious to hear the pros and cons of this practice.

Question 3, for David: When you shade your plants, do you shade as much
of
the plant as possible or just the new growth?
Do you shade all the time or only in serious heat?

Thanks!
David & Kathie
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