Pumpbrellakin method...

Hi Steve !!!
 
I have seen this type of growing a few years ago.
 
It weren't AG's but a smaller kind of pumpkin.
 
The pumpkin was bedded in a kind of hole on the top of a
compost pile. To keep the fruit lifted, they used an old umbrella
with some air holes in the clothing, which was held up by a tree....
 
The umbrella had also the effect to get more rain straight into
the compost pile.  
 
It was a very big pumpkin........for it's  kind....  
 
I hereby officially launch the term "pumpbrellakin method" ........:-)))
 
Greetings,  
 
Wim Van Loock    aka    "EYES-T"
Schoten - Antwerp - Belgium
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Van: r*@netzero.net
Aan: pumpkins@mallorn.com
Verzonden: donderdag 22 februari 2001 0:26
Onderwerp: Has anyone ever tried this??

List, Has anyone ever grown fruit on a vine that was elevated? By this I mean, as the vine grew out you piled soil up and let the vine grow on top of it. In 1999 I did this to an extra plant I had growing, it was under 200sq.ft. The dirt was about 18" high and about 4 foot wide, and went the length of the main. For some reason the main just ended about 15 foot out, but I had a fruit going on it about 9 foot out. The fruit grew and I never had to cut any of the roots off from under the main vine. I have some other ideas that would work well with type of thing, just need some others input. If anyone has tried this or anything like this I would like to hear from you! My fruit ended up 603lbs. and was not a wheel shape. But I could see were this type of growing would work well for a wheel shaped fruit.
Steve Krug
Amana Ia.
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