RE: Has anyone ever tried this??
Steve,
I have had similar thoughts. My biggest concern was getting water to the
roots. I was thinking about placing a soaker hose in the middle of the pile
to keep constant water to the main vine. Anyone who wants to comment on
that idea..feel free.
-Gus
-----Original Message-----
From: S.Krug [r*@netzero.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 6:27 PM
To: pumpkins
Subject: 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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