Re: Pumpkin Support, Removal, and Personal Note of Thanks

Matt, I'd recommend that you "not" put any tarp under your fruit this year, 
or to dig an indentation in the soil. With a tarp under it, you'll run a 
chance of rot/mold developing on the tarp which could move to fruit. You'll 
find it's fairly easy to tip the fruit one way and slide tarp under it and 
then tip it the other way to pull rest of tarp under it, when it's time to 
harvest your fruit. With my 837 last year it took 6 of us to tip and lift 
onto the pallet. As far as an indentation under the fruit, avoid it. Your 
fruit will always be fairly flat on bottom due to weight above. If you have 
an indentation, you'll end up with a buldge on the bottom and since it will 
be smaller than rest of the bottom, more weight will be put on it and will 
probably split open due to this.Hope this helps. Pumpkinpiper


>From: "M.G." <directart@wiers.com>
>Reply-To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
>To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
>Subject: Pumpkin Support, Removal, and Personal Note of Thanks
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:10:52 -0500
>
>Question, should I consider prepositioning a canvas beneath my best pumpkin
>to facilitate moving the pumpkin from the patch this fall?  Or is it a good
>idea to make a shallow depression to improve the curvature of the bottom of
>the pumpkin and give the pumpkin more ground support for its increasing
>mass?  I have covered a lot of literature, but have not found much on
>pumpkin removal.
>
>Hats off to everyone, who in short order, made me feel welcomed to this
>list.  I have received great hospitality, free seed offers, information on
>good web sites, contact by pumpkin growers associations, information on
>breeding and genetic selection of pumpkins, etc.  Thanks especially to the
>following folks for their back yard friendliness.
>apapez@home.com
>ezpumpkin@aol.com
>brad2julie@aol.com
>jimg@rtcol.com
>jenaipas@netrover.com
>neps@mindspring.com
>
>Sincerely,
>Matt Garver
>
>
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