Re: growing well-shaped pumpkins

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• To: <p*@athenet.net>, "Dan Shapiro" <d*@leland.stanford.edu>
• Subject: Re: growing well-shaped pumpkins
• From: "* b* <d*@saltspring.com>
• Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 14:02:04 -0700

This reminds me of the vegetable shaper I bought one year that was a clear
plastic form you placed around the vegetable fruit when it is small and it
grows into it, taking the shape of the mold. Mine was a whimsical twisted
old man's face, if I recall. Worked like a charm. I used it on an eggplant.
One could get square, trapezoidal, pyrimidical pumpkins, I bet. Has anyone
else tried it?

Denise McCann Beck
USDA Zone 7
Sunset Western 4
Coastal Bristish Columbia
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> From: Dan Shapiro <dgs@leland.stanford.edu>
> To: pumpkins@athenet.net
> Subject: growing well-shaped pumpkins
> Date: Friday, August 22, 1997 6:23 PM
> 
> 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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