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: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 00:52:24 -0700

Nope, I think I got mine through one of those gardener's catalogues -- it
was long ago, anyway. But it was clear stiff plastic, like a hot cap is
made of, hinged at top, you opened it and slipped it over the small fruit
then closed it at the bottom and let it grow inside.
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> From: Dan Shapiro <dgs@leland.stanford.edu>
> To: pumpkins@athenet.net
> Subject: Re: growing well-shaped pumpkins
> Date: Monday, August 25, 1997 12:43 PM
> 
> 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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