Re: Vines touching the pumpkin and pumpkin lotions. Jergen's anyone?

In the "old" days, we used to get a sponge and apply a weak solution of bleach on the pumpkin in hopes of killing off any bad things on it and also to "soften" it up...not sure how true it was but was pretty popular...about 1 to 10 or 1 to 20 ...so a weak solution.

David Bhaskaran

Rochester, MN


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Jepsen <ctpumpkin@optonline.net>
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Sent: Mon, Aug 3, 2009 7:29 pm
Subject: RE: Vines touching the pumpkin and pumpkin lotions. Jergen's anyone?




The flesh of young pumpkins is soft & easily damaged by the rough leaves.
Even a small scratch on the flesh now will be a large blemish later.

Lotion??? Not that I'm aware.

Stephen Jepsen
CT GS&PGA Director Emeritus
GPC Executive Committee
Tel (914) 260-7176
Fax (206) 203-2397



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Jim Acker
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 5:47 PM
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Subject: Vines touching the pumpkin and pumpkin lotions. Jergen's anyone?

Is there any particular reason that we do not want vines or leaves touching
the skin of the pumpkin?  Also - is there any good "lotion" that can be
applied to the pumpkin to keep the skin from drying out?  This is my first
year at this and even after reading a few books on the topic, I still find
plenty of questions.

I've got a fairly good shade over the pumpkin now.  It gained 14 pounds in
the last day. Pictures can be seen at "http://blog.acker1.com


Thanks, 

Jim  

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