growing well-shaped pumpkins

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• Subject: growing well-shaped pumpkins
• From: D* S* <d*@leland.stanford.edu>
• Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:23:29 -0800

Michael -

	Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.  Every year I buy about
100 pumpkins for a party I throw, and I actively seek out the most
misshapen gourds I can find.  I think they make for more interesting
carvings, or perhaps I just like the shapes.

	I extended that idea to *growing* gourds last year.  I wrapped a
couple of vinyl covered chains around a young banana squash and was
rewarded with the most unusual double humped fruit you could imagine.

	The same tactic should work for pumpkins.  Just make sure you use
steel cabling.  Anything less than that will likely break,  violently no
less.

	Is there a prize for the ugliest vegetable?

		Dan Shapiro

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