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Re: Milk Feeding

Vanessa,
   There is nothing in milk that will help your pumpkin that isn't already in
your soil. Milk has mostly water in it.......that you get from your hose.
Milk has calcium in it....that you get from limestone or calcium nitrate.
Milk has fat in it.....that's real bad for a plant. Composters would never
dream of putting fat scraps in their compost piles yet somehow it is
beneficial to try to inject it into a plant? Milk has lactose in it.....a
sugar not used by pumpkins. Whats left? Not much. If you want to introduce
something into your plant it must be done through the root system or to a
much lesser degree, through the leaves. Cutting a vine open and trying to put
milk in, is like slashing your wrist and putting it in a bowl of milk and
thinking the milk will enter your body. It just doesn't happen that way. And
even if it could be uptaken, milk is the last thing you would want in your
plant. I'm not saying people have not tried milk feeding, I'm saying it does
no good and some harm. Also a giant pumpkin back in the 1930's may have been
200 pounds.........the heavy hitters in the pumpkin world prune ones like
that off and throw them away now. Stick with good basic gardening techniques,
good seeds, good luck and lots of perspiration and you will grow a big
pumpkin......leave the milk on the cereal!!!
                                                       pumkinguy@aol.com
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