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Re: growing well-shaped pumpkins

Denise,

Do you (or does anyone) know where to buy a vegetable shaper?  It sounds
like they work well on soft skinned fruit  (e.g., eggplant, zucchini) but I
wonder if they'll work on pumpkins.   The other problem is that pumpkins
are likely to break open.  A big time grower out here (Doc Pumpkinstein)
told me once that he tried for a rectangular pumpkin using a speaker box.
The box broke instead.

We might have to use a metal form with metal straps to shape pumpkins.  I'm
VERY tempted to try.

	Dan Shapiro



>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
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