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Re: A novice gets worried

Straw  or rather hay would be fine if you use a slab of it straight off the
bale without the usual breaking it apart. About a four inch slab or so
under your babies should help. If you're worried about the damp, put a
carpet sample on top of the hay slab -- one of the kind with the foam
backing glued right on, so the water can't come through should work nicely.

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> From: Vickie  Brock <brocfarm@pacific.net>
> To: Tom Perigrin <tip@ai.chem.ohiou.edu>
> Cc: pumpkins@athenet.net
> Subject: Re: A novice gets worried
> Date: Thursday, August 21, 1997 3:30 AM
> 
> 
> >HOWEVER, I have a concern...   Those of you who watch the weather
reports
> >may have seen that we are getting MORE flooding in SE Ohio again.  
While
> >my patch is far above the local creeks, the ground is so saturated that
my
> >pumpkins are either in standing water (only 1/4") or sitting on
thoroughly
> >soaked mud.   I fear for rot and such.   Is there anything that can be
> >done?  Should I try to lift my basketballs up onto little beds of straw,
or
> >would the damp straw cause more problems then it would fix?
> >
> >It is not rainging today, but the forecasts call for rain again Friday
and
> >Saturday.
> >
> >---
> >
> >A .sig is static        My life is dynamic.     I can't think of a
single
> >quote or witty saying that expresses the mercurial nature of the changes
in
> >my life.  The only constants in my life are stress,  my loving wife, and
> >the weekly hairball my cat leaves on the carpet.
>
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> Don't use straw or any other organic matter.  Sounds like you need a
layer
> of gravel and then a layer of sand 2 to 3 inches thick each
> layer........Brock
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