Re: Another burying-the-vine question
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Another burying-the-vine question
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:11:41 EDT
In a message dated 8/14/99 9:37:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
hughes.banderob@sympatico.ca writes:
> Okay, I know how to bury a vine but my question is "when?"
>
> If I bury the vine as it grows, how do I snake the vine when a pumpkin
> shows up? I have seen people who give their pumpkin's shoulders room by
> placing the stem at the outside of a curve... how can you manipulate a
> vine in such a manner if it is buried?
>
You can anticipate when to outcurve it when you see a female flower bud.
> Also, I tried trenching one of my plants this year, but when a pumpkin
> grew, the stem was so short that most of it was underground leaving the
> poor pumpkin's blossom sticking straight up!
>
> Randy Banderob
> Millbrook, Ontario
>
Well, you can leave the area near the developing pumpkin unburied, or cut the
nearby taproots when it gets big enough to let the vine raise.
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