Phytophthera
Hi Guys!
Have any of you had any experience with phytophthera? I used to know it as a
grape disease, but this summer I and my neighbors all over the county are
finding it to be the scourge of tomatoes too. Can it, will it, affect AG
pumpkins?
Also, how edible/usable are field pumpkins for human beings like me? Can I
put it in a pie? Can I eat it by and by?
Thanks!
Kathie
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>From: Dave Squires <djsquires@ultraplix.com>
>To: pumpkins@hort.net
>Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing In the Secret Patch
>Date: Wed, Aug 31, 2005, 9:09 AM
>
> How about whitetail deer getting through an electric fence and munching
> about
> a fourth of one at the 50lb point. There's a big hole in it where you
> can see the seeds
> and seed beds inside. I leave it there anyway and it just keeps growing
> and must
> be at about the 100lb point with the hole looking smaller as the days go by.
> It just won't die. Weirdest thing I have seen so far. It even rained
> and got standing
> water inside and it still keeps growing. No sign of stopping yet. Even
> mice pay a visit
> leaving their telltale droppings all over it.
> Well, at least I should get some seeds for next year out of it.
>
> ---DRS
>
> vince wrote:
>
>>I've often wondered what motivates the continual malevolent
>>antics of the pumpkin gods. What drives them to bestow such
>>unspeakable horrors on gentle nurturing pumpkin growers? Their
>>treacherous creativity this year is unsurpassed and the
>>resulting misery index of pumpkin growers seems at an all-time
>>high....
>>
>>I've read with dismay the tormented stories on this list and on
>>bigpumkins.com where growers casually reveal their personal
>>pumpkin tragedies - doing their best to hide their angst... but
>>in the background you can hear the laughter of the pumpkin gods
>>and you know that they're just gonna dig it in....
>>
>>There's a first time grower somewhere near you - who just threw
>>a seed in the ground... and will show up at the weigh-off with
>>a perfectly sound 1,200 pounder... They are such shits!
>>
>>So - thanks to the criminal insensitivity of the pumpkin
>>gods... (and my own stupidity) my season has quietly slipped
>>down the toilet... (can you sense the angst?) and so it goes...
>>so it goes...
>>
>>I was going to reveal the whole horrible story... the stump
>>that frothed at the mouth like a rabid dog, the squirming
>>hordes of critters, the plagues of black aphids, the waves of
>>rats. It is a truly horrific story that bleeds gallons of
>>vile, rotting pumpkin juice. But - I will not give those
>>bastards the pleasure.....
>>
>>My last lingering hope, slowly and painfully assumed a
>>grotesque twisted shape so hideous - the plant mercifully
>>aborted it at about 200 pounds.
>>
>>There are still some surprises in the secret patch, some oddly
>>geometric, some strangely deformed, some showing glowing hints
>>of a glorious orange.
>>
>>I just cringe at the thought of what the pumpkin gods have in
>>store for them....
>>
>>vince
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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