Re: milk feeding

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• To: p*@athenet.net
• Subject: Re: milk feeding
• From: v*@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Vanessa Marsden)
• Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:35:50 +1000

All this talk of exploding pumpkins and calcium deficiencies has reminded
me to ask-

does anyone here subscribe to milk feeding their pumpkins? I read about it
as a child in a Laura Ingals Wilder book. (she wrote stuff like Little
House on the Prarie). It says that you cut a small slit (my scientific
knowledge tells me to use a wet blade) in the feeder vine of a fruit,
insert a candle wick and submerge the wick's ends into a bowl of milk,
which the pumpkin apparently slurps up quite happily each day, and grows to
be a whopper.

I tried a similar thing last season, but with sugared water instead of
milk. Unfortunately the experiment was aborted when a rabbit decided to
maul that fruit, but the pumpkin did seem to be growing quite fast.

Does anything know anything more about the subject? (Or is it a terribly
improper thing for competitive pumpkin growers to do?)

cheers

vanessa.


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 /    \      Vanessa S. Marsden
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     \*<-----Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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