Re: Pumpkin Support, Removal, and Personal Note of Thanks
Matt,
Once your fruit is set and positioned put sand underneath the fruit. Build a
little "sand platform". This has worked well for me.
Jim DuBois
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Thorson" <pumpkinpiper@hotmail.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 11:20 AM
Subject: 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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