Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #

OK..now you all have to sit down and give me some serious tips on preparing the ground. coffee grounds???? my soil is sandy and last year was a right off but I am determined 09 will be our turn! 
Mary
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hatcher, John" <JHatcher@ciena.com> 
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:16 AM
Subject: RE: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #



Great mail, Diana! I'm going to till the plot this weekend, work my 500
pounds of Starbucks coffee grounds in one more time.  I smiled picturing
your husband at work and then chuckled out loud at the worm bin in the
computer room.  Thanks for sharing!


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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:37:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Diana Sigel <duchessofgladstone@yahoo.com>
Subject: warm day and fertilizer

Well, it's a warm day in Kansas, 73 degrees at 2:30 in the afternoon.
It's brought out the craziness in the two of us.  My husband, who's
delayed two years to put up a bird feeder in the yard, got excited about
my goal to grow the first 1,000# pumpkin in Kansas, and has just
finished putting 12,500 gallons (he says it's only 7,500 gallons, but I
can count, too) of liquid manure on my 1/4 acre pumpkin patch.  Warm
days in Kansas bring out the weirdo in all of us.  All I did was get my
seed out and fondle them a little.  Calculated how big an area I was
going to need.  He got out the tractor and the manure.  The wind is
wafting in from the southwest, toward the house.  Ahhh, the joys of
country living.

Good luck to you all.  I think it's going to take about a million
gallons of water when the temperature gets to 105 in August.

My biggest thing until today was starting a worm compost bin in the
computer room.  This is really big.

cheers,
duchess of gladstone
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