growing in a greenhouse to beat the heat.

  I need some input from growers about this next season growing giant pumpkins
in a greenhouse. I have a nice sized greenhouse that I will have to recover
with plastic and shade cloth.

  Our weather here in Oklahoma gets so hot, so fast and that is one of the
main reasons there are not many growers or large pumpkins grown here. I am
looking at getting a very early start next year to try to beat our heat and
get a pumpkin up to a good size before it gets to hot. This would mean
starting about the middle of February to maybe around the first of March or
better yet maybe even earlier. What I need is ideas on what all it would take
to grow in the greenhouse. Ideas such as such as how much light it would take
to support a plant and maybe some type of controlled heat.

  I would like to try to fix the plastic on the sides where I can roll it up
on warm days so that it would dry out a lot of the moisture inside the
greenhouse until the weather turns warm enough.  I will be able to take the
plastic off when the weather turns hot and put a shade cover over it to cool
the plant along with a misting system. I might even try to grow a pumpkin and
a melon plant inside the greenhouse.

So what are your thoughts about growing in a greenhouse such as pest and
disease control, keeping it dry inside a greenhouse, what all other elements
you can think of.

Thomas

S.W. Oklahoma

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